CP steam special navigates through the wetlands nearing Portage. This historic strip of land was the transportation gateway to the interior west for early explorers from Europe, as it divided the... (more)
CP 2816 is on the move a few miles from the Illinois line.
Before her days as a North Pole movie star, but still deep into her 'second' life as an excursion engine, 1225 makes friends in Marion as she highballs her train through town.
I dunno who the feller is with that big crescent wrench, but it looks like he means business.
A face shot of the little engine that did.
SP 4449 in AFT paint leaves the next day back west.
T&P 610 eases up the AGS main somewhere between B'ham and Attalla, Ala.
Sou 722 is being readied. Ronald Norman gives a quick smile for the camera before he goes back to lubrication.
SP 4449 as ATF heading out the next day for it's big trip back west.
The Grand Old Lady in her first portrait by me.