Buffalo Creek & Gauley #13 leaving Dundon with empty coal hoppers in March 1962.

Steam seems to defy gravity on a cold winters day, and on this 10 degree day in Alna, Maine it wafts about effortlessly. WW&F No 9 and short freight consist are seen departing Alna Center station ... (more)

Dark-Side reflection at Beaver Dam. The dark side of the beaver pond at the west end of Beaver Dam Country Club offers the best reflection shot on the WSOR, with SOO 1003 throwing really ni... (more)

Sunset at Fox Lake. Just a minute or two of daylight remains as a local SOO Line Freight runs eastbound across the causeway just south of Fox Lake, Wisconsin. The power this evening is the... (more)

A steam train to Brocken on its way uphill between Steinerne Renne and Drei Annen Hohne, Germany, on January 1, 2017. Brocken, the highest hill of Harz, is hidden in the clouds on the right side o... (more)

The quiet in the small village of Coopers, West Virginia, long interrupted by the passing of empty and loaded coal hopper trains, experiences a different type of disruption from three decades prio... (more)

And so a new era begins... Crews at the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad have spent much of 2016 rebuilding a section of former C&O main between Cass, W.Va., and Durbin, W.Va., that was ... (more)

The train and the brigde is illuminated by the last sun, when the Santa claus train of association VDM (preservation steamlocomotive Muni) is crossing the Rhine Bridge between Feuerthalen and Scha... (more)

The 0-6-0 steamlocomotive Ed 3/3 # 1 "MUNI" of the association Dampflok Muni is pulling the Santa Claus special from Diessenhofen over the Rhine bridge to Schaffhausen. The locomotive wa... (more)

First day of Santa Trains

Pulling hard just below Silver Plume. The Georgetown Loop Railroad's freshly restored IRCA Consolidation #111 is pretty much at her limit with a heavy passenger train as she claws her way u... (more)

In more years of railway photography than I care to recall, the happy coincidence of a steam train, perfect light and a rainbow have been decidedly elusive. How strange then, that this item from m... (more)

Great Smoky Mountains Railroad's recently restored consolidation No. 1702 splits downtown Bryson City as the first Nantahala Gorge Excursion of the day departs on its westbound run.