From Right to Left, Eureka and Palisade #4 (1875), Florence and Cripple Creek/Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 #20 (1899), D&RG/D&RGW 168, and Florence and Cripple Creek/D&RG 425 (aka, D&RGW 315)

A broadside view of CN 6200 on a sunny morning. It has 73 inch drivers and a Vandberbilt tender. Underneath the cab window is '57%,' representing a tractive effort of nearly 57,000 pounds (56,785 ... (more)

Big Boy And The Big Easy. On the afternoon of Friday, August 20, 2021, Union Pacific Railroad's 4-8-8-4 4014 (Big Boy) crossed the Mississippi River over Huey P. Long Bridge with the city o... (more)

Lights from nearby parking lots, building and cars illuminate Union Pacific's Big Boy 4014 as it sits the night in Sidney, Nebraska.

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 arrives in Julesburg, Colorado where it will stop and greet the large crowd that has turned out to see the huge marvel of engineering.

Pennsy K4s No. 1361 has a respectable 8 cars in tow, crossing over at ROSE with a Bellefonte-Altoona excursion. The limit for a K4s up the mountain was 6 cars; hopefully we will get to see No. 13... (more)

Code Poles and Track Speed
Ed Dickens is on the fireman side for his watchful eye over the Overland Route right of way in western Nebraska. Running track speed near Ogallala, N... (more)

Shay 5 was the only steam locomotive operated at IRM in 2020. Here it is departing East Union with a train of socially-distanced passengers.

No. 611 simmers outside the Strasburg shop on its first day of excursions service on "The Road To Paradise" for 2021.

Built in 1911 by the Lima Locomotive Works for Bloedel Stewart & Welch this 2-truck Shay is now the "gate guardian" for the BC Forestry Discovery Centre.

Nickel Plate 2-8-4 No. 765 rounds a bend clearing a tunnel of trees just shy of Gouldsboro, PA, while en route from Steamtown, in Scranton, PA, to the Delaware Water Gap and return. This is one o... (more)

NKP No. 765 gets pampered after a full day's excursion from the former DL&W Scranton yard at Steamtown in Scranton, PA to the Delaware Water Gap and return. Taken during Steamtown's 2015 Railfest... (more)

As a pop up thunderstorm passes to the east, Iowa Interstate 6988 has completed its first maintenance run between Kellogg and Newton as it pulls into the yard so the crew can make some adjustments... (more)

Iowa Interstate 6988 turns its wheels for the first time in 2 years after some time in storage due to COVID. The hard working crew has just finished putting the locomotive back together for upcomi... (more)

CP "Jubilee" #2929, a rare 4-4-4, (one of only two in existence), sits slowly rusting away at Steamtown, having not yet made the list of engines to have its asbestos removed along with new boiler ... (more)