A California-Nevada Railroad Historical Society excursion train is seen leaving Reno on December 1st 1957. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
East Broad Top 16 leads its passenger train into the woods at the end of the fill on a hazy June morning.
I stumbled onto a photo freight at Helmstetter's and just happened to catch 734 coming around the bend before the sun dropped below the mountain.
One of the biggest steam engines at the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum is the Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 No. 763. With more than 20 steam locomotives on display at this museum in Sugarcreek, Ohio, it... (more)
BNSF 7972 (ES44C4) leads a freight past a Northern Class 4-8-4 which sits at the Santa Fe Depot in Pueblo, Colorado.
Stunning morning on a Lerro Photo Charter with the C&O 1309 making quite a ruckus in the narrows.
Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 No. 1293 sits inside the Age of Steam Railroad Museum roundhouse in Sugar Creek, Ohio. There is quite a impressive number of steam and diesel locomotives located at this mus... (more)
Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 No. 33 sits inside the Age of Steam Railroad Museum roundhouse in Sugar Creek, Ohio. Sitting next to it is McCloud River 2-6-2 No. 9. There is quite a impressive n... (more)
Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 9 of the DFB (Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke), lettered as "BFD 9" (Brigue-Furka-Disentis Railway), predecessor of the Furka-Oberalp-Bahn (FO), on the turn... (more)
Nevada Northern 81 coasts downgrade at Lackawanna Crossing with its excursion train on a lovely June morning.
EBT 16 is reaching the top of McMullins Summit on its way back to Orbisonia with the 11am train.
C&S train number 7, the Gulf Coast Special, is crossing the Arkansas River south of Pueblo Colorado in 1936. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
Switching night, volunteer crew they are finished after an open day.
A fully loaded coal train is climbing out of the mine pit on a hot summer day. The beautiful Tian Shan can be seen in the far distance.
Watching and control,my son Matias taking his first steps as a fireman assistant, something that the writer did 30 years ago.
