Pan AM local ED-8 switches the yard at Gardner. in the foreground is an autorack car filled with burned-out vehicles from a recent unfortunate fire. All the vehicles and the railcar are a total lo... (more)

Under heavy rain, steam from locomotive No. 2 is lost in the clouds, as the convoy enters the Tierra del Fuego national park. At the same time, a safety valve releases a flame from the engine's fi... (more)

An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.

An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.

BNSF 9150 stopped at Castle Rock, CO, on Colorado's Joint Line, after an engine compartment fire developed. The fire call came in approximately 943am with the train not moving again until later a... (more)

Everything freezes in the sub zero temps as workers work all morning to get everything thawed out using large flames.

Workers build a small fire to stay warm while they work on the yard tracks at Nanzhan.

Every morning that was sub zero, ice would be an issue. The locomotives pipes and valve would come in frozen and needed to be thawed and drained before the next crew headed out on their shift. Eve... (more)

Four GEs hustle priority intermodal traffic past the Horsethief Lake campground at sunset in Columbia Hills State Park, WA. The dry climate in the Columbia River Gorge has stoked brush fires which... (more)

After more then 12 years or about 4400 days the ex French Railways SNCF 2-8-2 oilfired steamlocomotive 141 R # 1244 was put under steam pressure for the first time again on november 9th 2010. The ... (more)

On the footplate of Europe's most powerfull narrow gauge cogwheel steamlocomotive, HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB), which is running up the mountain on a grade of 11.0 % with... (more)

"Sunrise at 7": Hostler Jerry Dziedzic works hard on the fire of Baldwin Locomotive Works 0-6-0 #26 in the early morning hours of another day of steam railroading at Steamtown National H... (more)

Entering the cab of Union Pacific 4014, you step onto a Diamond Plate floor with a custom 4014 herald and feel the heat of the fire box.

"Can I have my Hobart Tower well done, please?" The local transients of Los Angeles were happy to abided this order, unfortunately, as seen in blacked-interior and blown out windows of the ... (more)

The #922 suffered a transformer failure in July of 2003. The resulting fire made a ghastly mess. A Marc Grinter original Kodachrome slide from my collection.