This is what Alcos do. Recently repaired and returned to service with an SP bloody nose, former SP R32 #4009 starts up for a day secretly pulling the Day Out with Thomas train.

One of Fillmore & Western's handsome former Chicago and Northwestern F units poses in the sun on display for A Day Out With Thomas. (Note, unit on display, photo taken from grade crossing with fen... (more)

Fillmore & Western Christmas tree train stands by for departure. Locomotive has been "weathered" for a movie production.

Filmore & Western's No. 14 Baldwin Steam engine pulls the Pumpkin Liner Train along the orange groves at Heritage Valley.

Fillmore & Western's beautifully restored Baldwin Consolidation has a few Halloween decorations littered all over it as it pulls the day's second Pumpkinliner out of Fillmore on the way to "Ichabo... (more)

Fillmore & Western's dinner train waits behind a pair of ex CNW F7s for its next run. Passengers are treated not only to dinner, but a murder mystery play that takes place on board too. While Fill... (more)

Fillmore & Western Railway's recently restored 1913 built Baldwin 2-8-0 is about to lead an excursion from downtown Fillmore toward Piru as part of their recent RailFest weekend. (The train backed... (more)

An excursion train full of students who arrived on school busses, runs by me in push-pull mode with an ex Chicago & Northwestern F7A.

An excursion train full of students who arrived on school busses, passes the two semaphore signals in downtown Fillmore.

While NBC filmed the Yasmine Bleeth TV movie THE LAKE up the street, the Fillmore & Western used their former Sout... (more)

The Benzini Brothers circus is in town! The Benzini Brothers circus is in town! McCloud River Baldwin Mikado #18 switches movie prop cars for the 20th Century Fox feature film "Water for Elephants... (more)

The Fillmore & Western crew switches together equipment for the fictional Benzini Brothers Circus (for the motion picture "Water for Elephants"). Besides the McCloud River 2-8-2 Baldwin seen here,... (more)

While a teenaged couple watches from their interrupted swim in the Sespe Creek, the McCloud River #18 (2-8-2) makes its first run from Santa Paula to Fillmore, on its way to starring in the featur... (more)

The Fillmore & Western crews use borrowed McCloud River Mikado #18 to trim a tree... actually, the locomotive is being moved onto the turntable here. The neat little Mike is visiting Fillmore for ... (more)

This is a locomotive. I say that because you may remember my images of its dopleganger that was not a locomotive - her... (more)