I stumbled across several old family photos and discovered that one of my relatives had photographed a Soo Line train wreck that occurred in Stevens Point, WI back on december 30, 1916.

Hidden in the confines of the old Central Pacific Shops

A young man in his first truck flies down an old farm road, trying his best to out-run a pair of Berks high-steppin' across the Midwest with a fast freight. Thanks go to Lerro Productions and SRI ... (more)

Ultra wide view of the cab of C&O 1308, a 2-6-6-2 owned by the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Society.

Reading T-1 4-8-4s 2124 and 2100 perform a photo run along the Schuylkill River with an Iron Horse Ramble. These Rambles may have been the finest railfan excursions ever as the Reading went all ou... (more)

Former Erie F3 7101 leads an A-B-B-A set on an eastbound freight as the semaphore near the Endicott station drops. This late model F3 had been 710-A on the Erie and the type was sometimes referred... (more)

C&NW F7A No. 400 leads the North Western's business train accelerating south at Rosemount, Minnesota on the ex-Rock Island on Oct. 15, 1986. It's just after sunrise and the sun is peaking out as a... (more)

During one of the worst central Illinois winters in memory, a northbound "slingshot" piggyback train, powered by ICG GP35 2501, became mired in snowdrifts south of Springfield. GM&O F3s 800B and ... (more)

N&W 168 among with other N&W power at Elmore, WV in the spring of 1970.

CSX borrowed UP's Challenger 3985 to celebrated the 50th anniversary of the annual Santa Train in 1992. The railroad dressed it up as a Clinchfield locomotive for this occasion.

Following on from my Erie 0-8-8-0 Camelback here is a Pennsylvania & Reading Railroad camelback 4-4-0. The reason for the position of the cab was that the wide Wotton firebox designed to burn anth... (more)

One of the only three camelback articlated locos ever built, Erie 'Angus' type 0-8-8-0s Nos 2600-02 built by Alco in 1907 for pusher duty. These Mallets were rebuilt by Baldwin in 1921 as 2-8-8-2s... (more)

Westbound Yampa Valley Mail making a stop at Granby, CO in 1964.

Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr stops in Greeley en route to Denver and points east.