When the runs are done for the day, the crew just lines up the trains in preparation for the next day's work. Here 0-2-2-0 3 spends the night next to a shed near the coaling tipple. It was one of ... (more)

Even from over 1000' feet below, you can still tell when Kroflite's fireman opens the firebox door to add more coal. 0-2-2-0 10 (the lower train) has just cleared Long Trestle, while 0-2-2-0 3 is ... (more)

Busy night in the Maine woods. Alna Center is a hub of activity this evening as a crew unloads a boxcar from a northbound freight while the conductor looks on from the caboose. On the adjac... (more)

Starry night. During last weekend's night photo session at the Conway Scenic, after everyone had gotten their Lumedyne-lit shots of Boston & Maine 4266 sitting on the turntable, I noticed t... (more)

After one of the busiest days of the year, all is quiet at Mount Washington's base station as 0-2-2-0 Ammonoosuc waits for tomorrow to come. Notice the cog wheel in between the trailing tender tru... (more)

Bailey Yard is crawling with sets of standard cab EMDs in this nighttime view from the new Golden Spike Tower. Thanks to the staff at the tower for being so accommodating.

The final stop on the Bailey Yard tours offered during North Platte's Railfest was the North Platte Diesel Facility, where UP 1996 (Southern Pacific), UP 1995 (Chicago & North Western, and UP 1989... (more)

Ready for launch. After being on display all weekend for North Platte's Railfest, Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3985 simmers away the night before she left for a tour of the Midwest.

Through the fog. With the westbound photo charter over and the weather getting worse, Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 261 prepares to drop its gondolas in the siding near the Buffalo Lake grain elevat... (more)

Through the fog. Reading & Northern 4-6-2 425 bursts out of the north portal of White Haven Tunnel on a foggy Saturday morning as the remnants of Tropical Storm Hanna settle over the area. ... (more)

Doing what they do best, two Alco RS-3s smoke it up as they approach Moscow with the returning whistle stop excursion, bringing people home after a day at Lackawanna Railfest in Scranton.

When the crew would blow Milwaukee Road 261's whistle for the Zebra Avenue crossing, the cows on the farm would get scared and run away from the planned set up and photo line. By moving to the oth... (more)

Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 33 nears the end of the run as she crosses Township Road 509 and approaches the Route 36 overpass. On the other side of the highway bridge, the train will cross the... (more)

Surprisingly, even though this is a smoke-free facility, no one called in to complain about former Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 33's smoking. The chunky Consol sits at the Sugarcreek station bo... (more)

I guess, if the pieces are just sitting around, they might as well be used for something. While wandering around Steamtown's locomotive repair shop, we found this part (the petticoat pipe, or draf... (more)