Southern Pacific No. 1273 is a 0-6-0 switcher that interestingly was built in the railroads own Sacrament Shops in 1921. It has 20 x 26 cylinders, 57" drivers, is 62' 2" long and weight 76.5 tons.... (more)

Santa Maria Valley No. 1000 was built in 1920 by American Locomotive Company for the Hetch Hetchy Railroad #4. This 2-8-2 Mikado has 20 x 28 cylinders, 48-inch drivers, weighs 88 tons and has an o... (more)

1953? Or 2013? In any event, how often to you see a genuine EMD F-7(B) unit being repaired any where? This is one of the amazing things you can see in one of the worlds greatest rail preservation ... (more)

Here you see a fire's eye view of a Lima pacific's firebox crown sheet. This firebox happens to belong to Boston & Maine's No. 3713. That is the fire door on the left and a partial thermic syphon ... (more)

Wandering in Travel Town, there is one gem after another. Here is Union Pacific No. 4439 which was built in 1918 by the Union Pacific itself. It's cylinders are 21" x 26", it's drivers are 51" and... (more)

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe No. 664 is a 2-8-0 Consolidation and was built in 1899 by Baldwin. It has 21" x 28" cylinders, weighs 70 tons, has 57" drivers, and is 67' 4" long. This oil burner was ... (more)

Travel Town Los Angeles, has many gems. Here is Western Pacific 26 which was built in 1909 by American Locomotive Company Schenectady Works. It's cylinders are 22' x 30", it's drivers are 51" and ... (more)

Few of todays' railfans know the amazing fact that from the 1900 to 1960, the mighty Southern Pacific ran a 3 foot narrow gauge railroad in the Owens Valley of California. Stock Car 163, built be... (more)

Here is one of the youngest steam locomotives on the planet built 1988 in China. It's youth is one of the reasons the Valley RR selected this as it's most recent locomotive. It is much younger tha... (more)

I like to say that I planned this image but this is a grab shot. Here you see the result of the trainman putting the red fusee on the west of the track rather than the east side at Dock Road. When... (more)

The New Haven lives again on one of it's former secondary lines. The North Pole Express glides through Chester in recreation of years ago.

Here is more of my exploring the steps of the Master, O. Winston LInk. The lesson tonight was that a steam train moving not far from you in the moonlight is like a huge bear walking a trail close ... (more)

I have been doing this moving steam trains at night a few days over a year now. A big lesson learned here is trains are MUCH bigger in the dark! VRR No. 40 At Deep River CT. AKA "the North Pole."

Here we see the Valley Railroad's "New Haven" No. 3025 at the grade crossing north of the station of Deep River CT while pulling the 5PM section of the "North Pole Express." Back in the shiny cars... (more)

Steamtown's CN 3254 is backing up on the run around track at Moscow to hook up to it's train and return to Scranton. Word has it No. 3254 is going out of service so I made the trek to see her work... (more)