From the cab of T&P 316, T&P 610 basks in the afternoon sunlight before being pushed back into the Texas State Railroad's Palestine shop building

T&P 610 is raising all kinds of commotion on a rainy Sunday morning as it passes Southern Railway's Orange, VA station.

As Southern 2-10-4 610 backs its excursion train away from the Alexandria, Virginia passenger station, RF&P tonnage rolls south.

Fire up 610! Hey, if they could raise the millions to restore and operate Norfolk & Western 611....without a contract for a place to operate, surely someone could come up with the scratch t... (more)

A locomotive as big as Texas. Squirreled away in a shed on the grounds of the Texas State Railroad, sits a locomotive worthy of the Whyte Classification "Texas." This monstrous 2... (more)

Everything is bigger in Texas. Here's a rear-quarter view of the massive Texas & Pacific 610, a 1927 Lima 2-10-4, seen here on display in the yard at the Texas State Railroad in Palestine, ... (more)

Naked and Unafraid

Bessemer & Lake Erie Texas type #643 has had a rocky history over the past couple decades. Restored to operating condition in the mid/late 1980s, it was all dresse... (more)

Suprise! All fired up and ready to roll!

A few of us were privy to this event well in advance - notably, photographers of a Lerro Productions photo charter back in April of... (more)

Texas type steam locomotives like wide open spaces

Texas & Pacific No. 610, a 2-10-4 built in Ohio by Lima Locomotive Works in 1927 calls the Texas State Railroad Museum in Palestine, TX... (more)

Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 No. 610

T&P 2-10-4 No. 610 was built in Ohio by Lima Locomotive Works in 1927. No. 610 is the sole survivor of the T&P's fleet of seventy 2-10-4's (designated as a... (more)

Texas & Pacific No. 610

Texas & Pacific No. 610, a 2-10-4 built in Ohio by Lima Locomotive Works in 1927, was brought out of the the Texas State Railroad shops and fired up for patrons of... (more)

Charlottesville, in the news lately for reasons other than railroading, is recalled in this 1978 photo of a Superpower steam visitor from Texas. I just happened upon the scene after leaving Monti... (more)

T&P 610, one of the last, if not the last, of it's kind was pulled out for the first time in years after weeks of the railroad publicizing it. It was pulled out then number 30 and 7 were staged on... (more)

The Santa Fe's (AT&SF) 5011 sit quietly out of the elements at the Museum of Transportation of St. Louis. The 5011 was the last generation of new steam locomotives purchase by the Santa Fe introdu... (more)