With a locomotive facility harking back to the old shortline days, this operation has a pretty good looking unit.
Originally a MP unit, this "butthead" was still earning its keep and looking good.
Becker Sand and Gravel never made much effort to pretty up their locomotives or to straighten bent stuff or to replace worn out wheels or much of anything. Here is a prime example of a gravel pit... (more)
Locon locomotive 301 (ex 228-656) seen stabled in Peitz Ost Yard .
Independent Locomotive Service (Holt & Bethel, MN) has worked on many locomotives, including this SW1 working at the Crookston Farmer's Co-Op Elevator just south of town. In an ever increasing vo... (more)
LNER 60163 'Tornado' at the head of the 'Cathedrals Express' 0745 Ashford International - Bristol
Altmark rails Nohab 1149 heads west on the Berlin Ausenring not long after its new coat of paint .
A rare early start from West Wales, Ian Riley's pair of Black 5's with the Cathedrals Explorer make a wonderful sight along the coast at Ferryside
Black 5 45305 climbs the final few yards to the summit at Ais Gill with Wild Boar Fell in the bacground on a rare sunny afternoon
Royal Scot 46115 make easy work of the steep grade to Ais Gill summit on a sunny summer evening
LNER 60163 'Tornado' (now running in BR Brunswick Green) + Support Coach 14007 (Mark 1 BFK - Corridor Brake First) form the 5Z63 0905 Kidderminster (SVR) - Stewarts Lane TRSMD (a locomotive positi... (more)
6024 'King Edward I' pilots 5029 'Nunney Castle' through Totnes station in full steam with the hard climb up Rattery Bank towards Plymouth immediately ahead of them.
Fort Edmonton's steam engine crosses the streetcar tracks on the double diamond.