A crew prepares to take a few workers down to the mine in a single JS locomotive. Once this was done with a train with multiple boxcars for the workers to ride in but now most get to the mine by t... (more)

Checking the track gauge in his Star Wars outfit. This is the coal transfer yard at Nanquan.

Heading down to the coal mine in the cab of JS Class steam locomotive 8190. These were Chinese made locomotives and the 8001 and up series were manufactured from 1986 to 1988. The engineer was hap... (more)

The Kengkongzhan Station was the nicest of the ones we visited along the Sandaoling Coal Mine Railway. It was tidy and put away. The control board operator greeted us in and was very friendly. He ... (more)

A worker sticks his head out of JS steam locomotive 8173 as it is almost ready to be moved out of the workshop at Jichangzhan.

Every morning that was sub zero, ice would be an issue. The locomotives pipes and valve would come in frozen and needed to be thawed and drained before the next crew headed out on their shift. Eve... (more)

The last day of operation for the PRR position light signals was the weekend of June 8th, 2019; as crews quickly worked their way across the NS Pittsburgh Line. On Saturday evening, a loaded stone... (more)

Riding the "Red Devil", world's most powerful narrow gauge steamlocomotive. The cape gauge (1067 mm or 42 inch) 4-8-4 "Northern" was rebuilt in 1981 by the english mechanical e... (more)

The crew of S15 825 passes tokens at Goathland Station during the 2012 NYMR Steam Gala ensuring the lines are cleared for safe passage.

The 4-8-2 19D ("nineteendolly") # 3322 of the Ceres Rail Company is turned on the triangle in De Hoek. Riding on the buffer beam is Stefan, the Train Manager, one of the most important p... (more)

Keepin' it movin'. MTA NYCT Subway Mantis Crane 263 leads as a work train enters the 34 Street-6 Avenue Station on the morning of Saturday, July 20, 2019. This kind of equipment was designed to fi... (more)

Likely one of the tightest curves 4014 will encounter on its journey is this section on BNSF in Superior, Wisconsin. Here the massive 4-8-8-4 is "walked" through the curve with a little ... (more)

Cab View in the special VT2 machine (see RPN#704594) which is dedicated to track geometry analyses. It's moved by an hydrolic engine and can run up to 120Mp/h but limited at 80Mp/H due to no signa... (more)

Cleaning the grate of the 19B # 1412 of the Ceres Rail Company in Ashton.