Gold Country Narrow Gauge Railroad. Sumpter Valley's Mikado #19, an oil-burning Alco built in 1920, charges with a westbound freight train on the heritage railroad tracks glinting in the Fall morn... (more)

Blue Hour in McEwen. Sumpter Valley Railway's two steamers enjoy a rest after a long day of service on the line: Eccles Lumber Heisler #3, a wood-burning 2-trucker built in 1915, and Sumpter Valle... (more)

Sumpter Valley Railway's 2-Truck Heisler steam locomotive #3 puts on a great show on this beautiful Fall morning with cold temperatures. She departs McEwen with an early morning service headed for... (more)

Sumpter Valley Railway's 2-Truck Heisler steam locomotive #3 hauls an early morning mixed train headed for Sumpter, OR. This Heisler locomotive was built in 1915 and restored to operating conditio... (more)

Sumpter Valley Railway's Mikado steam locomotive #19 hauls a mixed freight train headed for Baker City, OR. This locomotive was built in 1920 by ALCO for the original Sumpter Valley Railway as #10... (more)

Golden October in the Powder River Valley. Sumpter Valley Railway's Mikado steam locomotive #19 hauls an afternoon freight train headed for Sumpter.

Early morning freight service headed for Sumpter. Sumpter Valley Railway's beautiful Mikado steam engine #19, built by ALCO in 1920 for the original Sumpter Valley Railway, throws a nice reflectio... (more)

Sunrise in McEwen on a gorgeous Fall day. Sumpter Valley's Heisler #3 is ready for departure with a local mixed train headed for Sumpter. The rising sun nicely illuminates the plume.

Sunrise on a fine Falls day in the Sumpter Valley! Mikado steam locomotive #19 built by ALCO in 1920 is departing McEwen with a westbound mixed freight train headed to Sumpter.

Fall at its best in the Sumpter Valley! Mikado steam locomotive #19 built by ALCO in 1920 hauls an eastbound mixed freight train headed to McEwen.

Thirsty

Darkness has fallen on the Sumpter Valley and its Mikado cozies up to its Heisler running mate, Eccles Lumber No 3, as they take turns at the tank.

(Not) Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

W.H. Eccles Lumber's 3-spot trundles a work extra through fresh snow on the Sumpter Valley.

Looking right at home in the tall timber of the Powder River Valley, Eccles Lumber Heisler #3 plods slowly eastward on the Sumpter Valley Railway, with a short work extra. Although #3 was... (more)

A machine with "character". That's how Fireman Jennifer Jenks described "her" engine to me. With her oversize, one-of-a-kind spark arrestor stack and a pair of antlers... (more)

Endless reflecting pools. Just half a mile or so from an arrival in the tiny Oregon town of Sumpter, the SVRy's Mikado #19 hauls an early afternoon mixed train north through the Powder Rive... (more)