IAIS 6988 leads a excursion East near Wilton.

What is better than a steam locomotive? Two steam locomotives!

Here we see fresh off a rebuild, No. 97, departing Essex Station with its section of The North Pole Express. No. 3025 waits it... (more)

IAIS 6988 leads a excursion East into Durant.

Stepping over the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River. Here's a west-side view of Everett Railroad Mogul #11 as she hauls her local mixed train over the steel and concrete bridge spannin... (more)

Saluting the flag in Roaring Spring. An Everett Railroad mixed train blows a steamy salute to old glory as it charges past the little station complex in downtown Roaring Spring, PA (MP 17.5... (more)

Routine servicing in Roaring Spring. With steam hissing softly from the snifter valves, Engineman Zach Hall services the grease fittings on the valve gear of Everett Railroad Mogul #11, as ... (more)

An old friend shines at first light. The first golden rays of sunlight on a frosty morning in Martinsburg, PA, illuminate an old friend of mine that I first met over half a century ago in N... (more)

Water stop: Los Pinos Tank. After stopping to fill their respective tender cisterns, D&RG Locomotives #168 and 425 pull away from the Los Pinos Tank (MP 325.5) and begin climbing the last 5... (more)

Rounding the curve at Big Horn. Charging eastward under a threatening sky, D&RG Locomotive #168 rounds the big curve below Big Horn Peak, near Milepost 299.6, with her passenger extra in to... (more)

Steamscape: Lava Tank. The early morning sun back-lights the Northern New Mexico desertscape, as D&RG Locomotive #425 charges west with her mixed train, bound for Big Horn, Sublette, Osier ... (more)

On the loop at Lava. Moments after dawn, a Denver & Rio Grande mixed train rounds the loop at Lava Tank, near MP 291.4, on its westbound run toward Chama, NM, via Cumbres Pass. The power t... (more)

Desert dawn on the D&RG. With a layer of mid-level clouds lighting up in spectacular fashion by the approaching sunrise, a Denver & Rio Grande passenger extra charges west over Ferguson's T... (more)

Steamscape: Rio de Los Pinos Trestle. Eureka & Palisade #4 and Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company #1 cross the Rio de Los Pinos on the 175' wooden pile trestle at MP 324.52, as they ha... (more)

Steamscape: The view from Big Horn Peak. Looking down from the northern slope of Big Horn Peak, on the Colorado/New Mexico Border, we watch as Eureka & Palisade #4 and Carson & Tahoe Lumber... (more)

Steamscape: Victorian wood-burners in the Los Pinos Valley. A pair of narrow gauge, 1875 Baldwin wood-burners team up to pull a vintage freight past the Los Pinos Tank (MP 325.50), toward C... (more)