A Southern Pacific freight is seen near Cougar California, with snowcapped Mount Shasta visible in the background, on July 26th 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Final weekend of steam runs for the TE&G "Orange Blossom Cannonball". It was fun while it lasted. Very little hope anything will replace tourist trains here after the successor pulled ... (more)

Charter train Migureisen near Bytom crossing standard gauge

Running gear of the 2-6-2 steamlocomotive 23 # 058 of the Eurovapor, standing in front of the shed of the Locorama in Romanshorn. Driving wheel diameter is 1750 mm (68.9 inches) and maximum veloci... (more)

Boy were we spoiled! From 1987 to 1992 both of these fantastic steam engines were running mainline excursions and ferry moves on the Norfolk Southern System. This double headed run is somewhere so... (more)

RBMN #425 turns the excursion on the wye at Jim Thorpe, PA in preparation for the return run to Reading Outer Station.

RBMN #425 blasts out of the tunnel under route 93 at Nesquehoning, PA with the return excursion from Jim Thorpe to North Reading.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Will this happen in 2023 ? Have a great New Year.

The steam locomotive 01 519 drives past Aldingen with a special advent train.

Ready to Go! N&W 1218 will shortly be towed out of the Roanoke Transportation Museum and then on to Birmingham Alabama to be overhauled. Sections of panel track have been laid into the museum fro... (more)

ATSF 3460 leads a twelve car Fast Mail Express, ATSF train 7, doing 60 MPH, just east of La Junta Colorado, on June 4th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

This Mikado was built in 1954 for CSN (steel plant in the state of Rio de Janeiro) by Arnold Jung (Germany) and since the 1990s it has been operated by Giordani Turismo to pull tourist trains in s... (more)

RBNM 425 departs the Reading Outer Station

Rain pours outside of Barnesville, PA on December 3, 2022 as Reading & Northern #425 makes haste for the Hometown High Bridge hauling the R&N's Santa Claus Special out of Tamaqua.