Don't look down. It is not obvious in this picture, but the gorge below the train is quite spectacular.

A Steam Specials charter on the Cumbres & Toltec does a pretty good job of recreating a long westbound DRGW freight snaking its way up the winding route up the canyon of the Rio de Los Pinos to Cu... (more)

A "Cumbres turn" much in the way the DRGW would have hauled cars to the top of Cumbres pass 50 years ago. A Steam Specials charter. A similar scene taken 50 years ago can be found Railroad: Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Chama, New Mexico, USA
Locomotive #: DRGW 484/DRGW489
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: September 28, 2015

The ex-DRGW 484 and 489 head a 35 car train west from Antonito with the sun just over the horizon. This was a Historic Transport Preservation (Steam Specials) charter. The fact so many freight ca... (more)

Morning at Zacapa. The daily train to the El Salvador border pulls out of the station. The Guatemala Division of the IRCA had been nationalized two years before, but the private owners still ran t... (more)

In early morning light Rayonier 14, a Baldwin 2-6-6-2 compound articulated mallet, heads south from Crane Creek reload toward the tide water log dump near Hoquiam some 40 miles away. This was the ... (more)

Rayonier 90 heads a log train southbound from a loading point near Quinault to the dump at Hoquiam. The specific location of this picture is lost in my fading memory, but this is probably near Nei... (more)

The former International Railways of Central America had fallen on hard times, and the Guatemala Division was nationalized in 1968 as the Ferrocarriles de Guatemala. The IRCA had almost completed... (more)

A northbound train stops at Great Lakes depot. This is a highly cropped version of a broader scene, which explains the grain. But I like the cropped version because it highlights the people, and t... (more)

Shortly after sunrise a Historic Transport Preservation (Steam Specials) charter on the C&TS rounds the big curve at Lava, on its way to plow snow farther up the line. In the distance the San Lui... (more)

The 204 heads from the mine at Lauro Muller to Tubarao with loads.

The C&TS 489 busts through a drift on a Steam Specials snow plowing charter on the C&TS.

A Valentines Day special approaches Trimble Road running through a very wintery Animas Valley on its way to Cascade on the day before Valentines Day 2010.

I spent one day chasing the North Shore, riding from the Loop to Great Lakes and walking between the Great Lakes station and Pettibone yard. This is a Chicago bound train on the Skokie Valley lin... (more)

I was passing through Chicago on my way from a Navy school in South Carolina to my ship in Long Beach. In Union Station I saw an add for this trip and fortunately last minute tickets were availabl... (more)