Early Morning Steam. Dressed up in FEC garb, the beautifully restored U.S. Sugar Light Pacific 148 does a runby early on the morning of a photo charter hosted by the railroad.

Black River & Western 60 accelerates its freight train across Central Avenue on a cloudy April day.

Eight bovine agree....the eighth (of ten) such steam locomotives delivered to FEC in April 1920 looks right in 2024...it may be 4/20, but you are seeing things right....for the weekend, US Sugar r... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train number 19, The Chief, is departing Barstow California with seven cars in 1933. Otto's speed estimate was 12 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Western Pacific 4-8-2 171 is seen at Oroville California in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A ten car California-Nevada R.R. Historical Society Excursion is seen at Roseville California on November 30th 1957. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

For reasons unknown SP train number 19, the Klamath, has arrived Gerber California 8 hours & 15 minutes late on July 30th 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Southern Railway 2-8-0 154 was built in 1890 by Schenectady Locomotive Works for the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway as ETV&G 466. Four years later, that railroad merged with the Ric... (more)

Steam crew is in a shoving move on the Norfolk Southern main in Salisbury, North Carolina on a day when passenger excursions were being run out of the North Carolina Transportation Museum to nearb... (more)

Southern 154 leading the Three Rivers Rambler through Knoxville on the Knoxville & Holston River Railroad

She may have a lot of miles on her, but she's still both beautiful and up to the job. Here Southern 630 is seen pulling a passenger special in Salisbury, North Carolina in Aril of 2013.

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Black River & Western 60 rests in Ringoes on a cool April night.

Fishers on Fisheating Creek greet the Sugar Express, today running roundtrip from Lake Placid to Clewiston & back. I'm sitting here remembering how this steam operation went from a hope and a d... (more)

East Broad Top 16 slowly rolls through the Rockhill wye on a sunny August afternoon.

CNJ 113 whistles for Maple Avenue as it nears Minersville on a foggy December day.