The crew of preserved Romanian 230.516 share some conversation while waiting in the hole for the regular passenger service. While the narrow gauge logging lines in Romania are relatively well kno... (more)

What in the world is worth getting up at 4:30 am, in 20 degree weather? How about to ride a train to pretty much the middle of nowhere. A few minutes after sunrise in the Steptoe valley, Nevada... (more)

The clouds parted ever so briefly to reveal the Farrail.net steam charter in the "loop", awaiting overtaking by a regular service train. This station is at 1615 metres (5298 feet) above... (more)

The sole surviving T9 class 4-4-0 30120 heads a short passenger train for a photo charter.

Don't Be That Guy. When we got to 40th and Lancaster in the City Of Brotherly Love, we did a photo stop. Stopping the car to let 40 guys get out backed up quite a few vehicles behi... (more)

Shay #4, temporarily re-lettered for the Mower Lumber Company, rounds the curve at the bottom of the Whittaker S Curve during the 2014 Cass Photography Workshop hosted by Walter Scriptunas II and ... (more)

56-548 and its mixed passenger-freight train on the 92 m (322 ft) high and 172 m (564 ft) long Varda Viaduct. It is one of most iconic engineering structures of the former "Baghdad Railway". It ... (more)

With an exclusive 30-person charter, Baltimore & Ohio F7(A) No. 722 toured much of the South Branch Valley Railroad in mid April with photo stops at scenic locations along the Potomac Eagle Scenic... (more)

After descending Echo Canyon, UP SD70M No. 5229 leads a manifest through Devil's Slide enroute to Ogden from Evanston, Utah on the original Union Pacific mainline.

Leading a mixed freight toward Moorefield from Romney, Chessie painted B&O EMD GP9 No. 6240 glides across the Potomac Valley farmlands during a Spring 2015 photo charter.

Friends of the Rail's class 19D No.2650 performs an early morning runpast for photographers.

Enroute to Green Springs from Moorefield, a B&O turn eases across the large trestle at Milepost 15.4 featuring B&O EMD GP9 No. 6240... This trip, among others featuring No. 6240 on April 18 and 19... (more)

Steam engine FS.741 class with Franco-Crosti boiler, maneuver in front of the station, to make a historic train to the slopes of the Apennines, from Pistoia to Piteccio, on the occasion of the 150... (more)

Friends of the Rail's pretty little Berkshire was designed and built after WWII to operate lightly laid branch lines. One hundred were built.

An authentic steam-era mixed goods and passenger train storms past the photographer during the annual Friends of the Rail's Photographic Weekend. FotR is the only organization in South Africa t... (more)