Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s second Silverton train 463 works upgrade along the Animas River west (north) of Cascade, Colorado, on the morning of August 31, 2006.

On Sunday, August 4, the Mt. Washington Cog Railway, celebrating it's 150th year of operation, employs the 1875-built cog steam locomotive, #2, the Ammonoosuc, for the first trip of the day. The ... (more)

Molli's loco 99 323 with the evening-freigh-train nears Kühlungsborn at sunset

Almost blending in with the surrounding pine trees and rocks, K-36 #482 brings a passenger train through the famous "High Line" on a picture-perfect summer afternoon.

UP "Big Boy" 4-8-8-4 4014 crosses the Chippewa River in Eau Claire, WI. The train is closing in on the day's destination of Altoona. It was a fun week of chasing around Minnesota and Wis... (more)

Nevada Northern's KCC 40 pulls a 2 car passenger train near East Ely, NV, on the Keystone Branch. Feb 9, 2019.

Northwoods Idyll

Preserved ten-wheeler No 995 skirts one of Finland's 187,000 lakes. Beautiful to look at, but remember, this is mosquito country. This was a prearranged c... (more)

19B # 1412 and 19D # 3322 are pulling the mixed freight/passenger train for FarRail Tours on the former New Cape Central Railway line Worcester-Robertson between Vink and Robertson.

RP photographer John Day from Canada, who I was able to meet on the trip, already posted some beautiful photos of the FarRail Tours journey through the Western Cape province of South Africa. Now t... (more)

A cold day in Echo Canyon. Union Pacific's two heritage steam locomotives stream long, steamy plumes in the cold morning air as the special train races through Echo Canyon on the last leg o... (more)

Union Pacific "Big Boy" No. 4014 and "Northern" No. 844 put on a fantastic show as they depart Rawlins, Wyoming, for Laramie, on May 17, 2019.

Union Pacific Railroad's 4-8-8-4 #4014 catches the last rays of sun before making a round trip to Nunn, Colorado as a test and break-in run on May 3, 2019. To purchase prints of this or any of th... (more)

At 7.15 AM, about 5 minutes before departure for the trip back home from Dresden towards Lyss/Switzerland. The former Deutsche Bundesbahn 4-6-2 express train steamlocomotive 01 # 202 of associatio... (more)

Fillmore & Western 2-8-0 No. 14, an Ex Duluth & Western 1913 Baldwin, returns to Fillmore with a Sunset Dinner Train. Next chance to see No. 14 under steam is April 27 & 28 at the F&W Railfair.

Caboose hop at Smith Lake. With the Skookum Locomotive still experiencing intermittent technical issues, the folks from the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad elected to have all 3 of their opera... (more)