Even if for only a brief moment, a glimpse of what an earlier period in time looked, sounded, and smelled like transcends generations when great machines of the past come to life.

Smog, smoke, steam, the reflections of the loco in the puddles, the smell of burning coal, the orange headlight from the engine, the train crew going about their final inspections of the loco befo... (more)

N&W 611 simmers the night before 6 half-day excursions out of Roanoke on Memorial Day Weekend, 2017

The calm before the storm. Late Friday night found a freshly washed N&W 611 with a skeleton night crew tending the banked fire overnight. The next three days would be a powerhouse weekend with the... (more)

Blacksburg, Virginia 1952: the hostler preps M Class locomotive for a day on the high iron. Well maybe, not 1952, but 2017 instead. I find it continually fascinating that we can still experience s... (more)

Floating in a cloud of steam, Hostler Earl Knoob preps the M Class air compressor evoking images of yesteryear on the Norfolk and Western.

San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society Night Photo Shoot. Permission provided by SBRHS.

San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society Night Photo Shoot. Permission provided by SBRHS.

“Wartime Travel” San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society volunteer’s ad drama to this scene that was part of a fund raising shoot for the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society to help def... (more)

In a scene that could have occurred in many places up and down the eastern seaboard during the 1940s, SAL "Decapod" 544 poses on the point of a short local freight as a passenger train s... (more)

"Gate City Dreams" === An homage to O. Winston Link. Greensboro is often referred to as 'The Gate City' and it proved to be the gate-way to the best and last shot of the day as I chase... (more)

Three Norfolk & Western steam locomotives pause at Roanoke, VA on a rainy July evening. The photo was staged for participants in a Lerro Productions and Virginia Transportation photo shoot conduct... (more)

A Timeless Place

The Nevada Northern is well known as a place frozen in time, giving endless opportunities for photographers to turn back the clock a century. It is very likely scene... (more)

When the moon hits your eye... An ambient lit shot (f/2.8 helps) underneath a near full moon finds Grand Canyon's two operable steamers, 29 and 4960 on the Dogtown/Cataract Creek Trestle outsid... (more)

A sky full of stars and two beautiful steam engines! Grand Canyon Railway steam 2-8-0 #29 and steam 2-8-2 #4960 were in operation on Feb. 7 and 8 for a 2-day photo charter by Lerro Productions.