It's a passenger train! It's a freight train! It's ... a 30-car mixed train! Amtrak #3, the westbound Southwest Chief, departs Fullerton, California, on July 13th, 2003 - just shy... (more)

Coming home to McEwen. Rain clouds threaten, as W.H. Eccles Lumber Company Heisler #3 holds the west leg of the McEwen Wye with a mixed freight and passenger consist. In the foreground, Fi... (more)

Fall color in the Sumpter Valley. A splash of vivid fall color greets a late morning mixed train as it passes one of the many little ponds along the route from Sumpter to McEwen, Oregon. ... (more)

Mixed train Agnita-Sibiu

Tender-first working was typical for Garratt locomotives on mountainous lines in South Africa.

First photo runby of the morning with the preserved water-cooled milk van, a DZ and a swing-door surburban coach making up an authentic SAR Steam-Era mixed branch line train.

Taken during one of the last Steam Charters on this remote line that runs through the foothills of the great Eastern Escarpment of South Africa. Regular steam operations ceased in 1978.

Our chartered mixed train rounds the oft photographed curve near the Zulu village of Mjila. A David Rogers special. My wife says the red flowers are called Red Hot Pokers, which sounds appropria... (more)

Visiting from the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland, Y542 hauls a mixed train for photographers on the Glenbrook Vintage Railway. Opened in 1922 and closed 1967, most the line was reb... (more)

Visiting the Glenbrook Vintage Railway from the Museum of Transport and Technology, L 507 and Y542 on a mixed train make a run-by near Victoria Avenue. The lead tank engine was built in 1877 and Y... (more)

Within a few years of this photograph being taken, this highly scenic railway was closed. In Steam Days the daily pickup train to Bethesda Road Station looked like this. Scan from a 35mm slide.

Viewed from the hills above the line this is a typical South African Railways branch line train.

Visiting the Glenbrook Vintage Railway from the Museum of Transport and Technology, Y 542 on a mixed train makes a run-by near Victoria Avenue. This tank engine was built by Hunslet in 1923.

A classic steam-era branch line train departs from Cullinan during the annual Friends of the Rail photographic weekend. Note the concrete sleepers that are soon to replace the teak sleepers.