Riding behind NW 1218 on its first trip up and over Blue Ridge. The train is approaching the summit on the fill at Webster. Today, the code lines are gone, the trees have grown up, and the 1218 ... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 1309 is an H-6 "Mallet" with a wheel configuration of 2-6-6-2. It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949 to haul coal from the fields in West Virginia. It only served ... (more)

ATSF 4099 and ATSF 5029 are in charge of a 65 car freight east of Belen, on September 2nd 1946. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Baldwin Locomotive works built both #801 and #81, though you couldn't tell by just looking. The two Baldwin graduates sit on display in the East Ely yard during the Winter Photoshoot weekend at th... (more)

The oldest existing class Tk3 light-duty freight locomotive build in 1929 is resting near Pieksämäki railway station as a memorial locomotive. The locomotive has seen and experienced everything ... (more)

Two car Northern Pacific train number 264 is seen on the curved trestle at Dorsey Idaho in 1931. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Built new by N&W in 1911, now awaiting an unlikely restoration.

ATSF 3751 leads train number 13, north of Littleton Colorado, on March 12th 1932 . Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The Indian Railways meter gauge Pacific locomotive YP #2296 is making a brief stop at the Agra Idgah station with a long passenger train.

The Indian Railways streamlined Pacific locomotive #7439 is making a brief stop at the Agra Idgah station with a long passenger train.

Lokie. Wanamie Mine Railroad 0-4-0T locomotive 9 (Vulcan Iron Works, 1915) was brought to Miners' Memorial Park in Ashley, Pennsylvania on the former site of the Blue Coal’s Huber Breaker... (more)

For the first time in the life of locomotive 99 331, it is driving with the chimney first on the occasion of a photo event, from Bad Doberan to Kuehlungsborn.

Western Maryland 1309 starts its trek up the mountain towards Frostburg on a chilly January afternoon.

Steam, smoke and snow in the forest of Buda hills. (1/6 pan shot.)

Otto's speed estimate was 80 MPH for this 13 car train near Valparaiso Indiana, on the PRR Chicago-Fort Wayne Line, in 1946. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.