"The Best Camera is the One That's With You"

In a spectacular moment of stupid, I had left my spare camera batteries in my car before the night shoot, thinking my current battery was... (more)

"CP 2023" (former US Army 4012) steams through Laggan Station at Heritage Park Historical Village.

This former US Army 0-6-0 has been refurbished as a Canadian Pacific locomotive for service at Heritage Park Historical Village, located south of downtown Calgary. It pulls a train of vintage coa... (more)

Rebuilt Baldwin 0-6-0 sets up for Railfest.

Sand Tower Switching

On a dreary night with rain starting to fall in the late 1930s, a Baldwin Locomotive Works demonstrator 0-6-0 waits on a switch to be thrown before moving a cut ... (more)

Olive green and aluminum... Just as Samuel Vauclain intended. Baldwin Locomotive Works shop switcher #26 is seen in front of the sand tower within the massive Scranton shops of the Delaware Lack... (more)

On a cool rainy September evening, in the former Delaware Lackawanna & Western, Scranton Yard, we find the BLW 26 posing next to the sand tower as SC #426 waits in the background. This shot was p... (more)

The Beginning of the End- It's 1935 in the Scranton yards of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western, and an Electro-Motive Corporation intruder has poked its nose into the former all-steam stron... (more)

The Beginning of the End It's 1935 in the Scranton yards of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western, and an Electro-Motive Corporation intruder has poked its nose into the former all-steam stron... (more)

A SLICE OF HISTORY. In 1976 the last train ran along the 18 mile line from Haltwhistle to Alston. Attempts were made to preserve it as a standard gauge railway but the line was quickly ripped up. ... (more)

"Stablemates". The likelihood that BLW #26 and CN #3254 ever shared the same roundhouse in regular service is slim to none, but in the new era of steam preservation they can be found bot... (more)