CSRM showing a little love for the Santa Fe Collection. The museum has found time for the cleaning, priming, and painting of two Santa Fe engines. The ATSF No. 5021 Texas 2-10-4 looking good on di... (more)

Baldwin class of 1944 from ATSF in Sacramento. This 2-10-4, recently received a cosmetic touch up to make its appearance less of the eye sore that it was in recent years. Wouldn't it have been som... (more)

What Southern Superpower might have looked like; except for the TP herald on the feedwater heater. Just happened upon this scene after leaving Monticello with my late grandparents- we had no idea... (more)

After 8 years of languish and vandalism on a siding in Sacramento, ATSF 5021 shows off fresh paint and new lettering on a nice warm Northern California summer night, these engines look way better ... (more)

Here's a look at the backhead inside the cab of ATSF Texas-type 2-10-4 #5011. This locomotive was the first in the final order of 2-10-4's that the Santa Fe ordered during 1944. There were twenty ... (more)

Southern Railway Master Mechanic-Steam Engines Bill Purdie Jr. and a fellow crew member inspect T&P610 prior to a pair of weekend excursions out of Alexandria, VA

The Southern Railway was notoriously conservative in matters of steam, but if the road had acquired modern Lima superpower, here’s what it might have looked like. On July 29, 1977, we are alongs... (more)

Alexandria Action 2 –The Southern Crescent is eight miles into its 1154 mile, 25 hour journey to New Orleans as it rolls out of Alexandria’s passenger station. An empty excursion train lead by... (more)

Alexandria Action – A fantrip lead by Southern’s 2-10-4 number 610 has unloaded its passengers after completing an Alexandria – Charlottesville round trip, and is backing away from the stati... (more)

The Southern Railway welcomed Texas and Pacific #610 into it's steam program after the 2-10-4 was rebuilt and did a brief stint pulling the American Freedom Train in 1976. Here the locomotive is... (more)

Canadian Pacific 2-10-4 "Selkirk" class T1c. Built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1949, with 63 inch drivers and 78,000 lbs tractive effort. For more pics & videos from my collection see my websi... (more)

Bessemer & Lake Erie 643 is stored outdoors in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKees Rocks. This 2-10-4 was fully restored in 1988 but was only test-fired, not operated in excursion service as intended... (more)

After being restored for American Freedom Train duties in Texas, Texas & Pacific 610 was leased to the Southern for excursion service. Here she thunders through Profitt, Virginia, en route from Al... (more)

Inside the cab of the highest-horsepower two-cylinder steam locomotive ever built, Santa Fe 2-10-4 No. 5017, one of 26 built for the road in 1944.