Steam makes an appearance on the CNO&TP in KY for the first time in over 20 years as SOU 630 storms south on the First District during May 2014. I'll consider myself extremely lucky on this one co... (more)

765 thunders through the Tunnel during the Employee excursion during 2013's Horseshoe Curve Special.

Nickel Plate Road Berkshire #765 exits the tunnel into a foggy Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, during an Altoona-based employee appreciation excursion on May 19, 2013. Photo by Casey Thomason. For mo... (more)

Photographer-Unknown- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. The 1987 NRHS Convention was a watershed moment for mainline steam in the late 1980's. What has commonly been referred to as &qu... (more)

Photographer-Dave Leonard- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. N&W 1218 pauses at Lowry on her second day in revenue service during her second lease at life. The previous day's excursion... (more)

Photographer- Unknown- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. Former Wabash #100, now (at the time the photo was taken) N&W #500 "Claytor Lake" brings up the rear of an N&W 611 po... (more)

Photographer- Brain J. Cudahy- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. Southern, well, as Southern as she could be- 2716 roars up the Southern main returning to Alexandria from a Charlottesv... (more)

The 611 crosses the Virginian bridge at Narrows, VA.

The 611 approaches the Interstate 77 overpass near Ingleside, with the observation car at the front of the train on the return of a Roanoke - Bluefield round trip.

Photographer- Dave Leonard- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. N&W 'A' Class leads her charge effortlessly through Lowry, VA enroute from Roanoke to Alexandria. She will stop in Lynchburg a... (more)

The face of ex-C&O 2-8-4 2716 catches the last sunlight as the locomotives pulls fast with an excursion returning from Toccoa to Atlanta.

A southbound intermodal train behind EMD GP50 7019 passes former C&O 2716 which will return to Chattanooga with an excursion.

Former Chesapeake and Ohio K-4 2-8-4 2716 shows off its Southern identity at Emory Gap, TN. The engine has been turned and serviced while awaiting the special's return from Crossville behind FP7s.... (more)

Photographer- Dave Augsburger- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. A late Spring day finds the 'Mercedes of Steam'; N&W 'A' Class 1218 less than a month into her excursion career, shown here... (more)

Photographer- John S. Murray- from the 35 mm original Kodachrome slide. The 1987 NRHS Convention was a watershed moment for mainline steam in the late 1980's. What has commonly been referred to as... (more)