D&RGW 346 backs past West Side Lumber Company Shay 12 on the loop track at the Colorado Railroad Museum

D&RGW 346 speeds around the loop at the Colorado Railroad Museum with an afternoon passenger train

Burlington Route 4-6-0 No. 710 is on public display alongside the station canopies in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. This Class K4 Ten Wheeler was built in the Burlington's own Havelock (Nebraska) S... (more)

Lifting the Ridgway Spark Arrestor into place on D&RGW 2-8-0 No. 346

Rio Grande 346 takes a spin on the turntable at Golden. The 1881 Consolidation currently appears as it did in the mid-1930s when leased to Colorado & Southern - the C&S Ridgway "Beartrap&quo... (more)

Union Pacific's forgotten Northern! No. 814 sits on display in Council Bluffs at the RailsWest Museum, which includes a restored depot and several passenger and freight cars.

This is Coal Country! CSX 291 digs in for the long climb up Sand Patch as it departs Grafton, West Virginia.

Inside the Great Hall at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh's Strip District is this nicely-restored PCC car. No. 1724 was built by the St. Louis Car Company in 1948 for Pittsbur... (more)

A great example of what makes Cass, West Virginia, so special. Coal-fired logging steam in the Appalachian Mountains. Yep, it's Almost Heaven.

Always a spectacle! The geared locomotive race at Cass during Railfan Weekend 2015, sponsored by the Mountain State Railroad & Logging Historical Association.

The crew of WM 6 job brief before departing the Cass depot. Photographed during Railfan Weekend 2015, sponsored by the Mountain State Railroad & Logging Historical Association.

A couple of crew members shoot the bull at the Cass depot after a long day on the road. Photographed during Railfan Weekend 2015, sponsored by the Mountain State Railroad & Logging Historical Ass... (more)

Cass Scenic Shay 4 and Western Maryland Shay 6 pose at the Cass depot during Railfan Weekend 2015, sponsored by the Mountain State Railroad & Logging Historical Association.

Heisler 6 backs up for another runby between Cheat Bridge and Spruce, West Virginia.

Heisler 6 steams across Shavers Fork of the Cheat River during Railfan Weekend 2015, sponsored by the Mountain State Railroad & Logging Historical Association.