Where rod engines dare not tread. Demonstrating a feat that no rod engine can perform, the former Mower Lumber Company Shay #4 accelerates her work train away from a water stop at Oats Cree... (more)

Mounting a top-end charge. In the vernacular of the drag racer, the 162-ton Western Maryland Shay #6 makes her move to "drive around" the 90-ton Heisler #6 as the Mountain State R... (more)

Race ya to the water tower! Three of the Cass Scenic Railroad's four operable steam locomotives participate in the annual "Great Locomotive Race" at the Mountain State Railroad & ... (more)

Freight to Cheat Bridge. The former Meadow River Heisler #6 hauls a well-used freight consist across the Shaver's Fork of the Cheat River, en route from Spruce, WV to Cheat Bridge, as part ... (more)

Meet me at Spruce. Western Maryland power holds the company main at Spruce, WV, awaiting orders to head north, while the crew of a Cass Work Train waters Heisler #6 from a trackside tank. ... (more)

Northern Central Railway, ca 1865. A Northern Central engine crew pose with their locomotive at New Freedom, PA, just a few miles north of the Mason-Dixon Line, shortly after the Confederat... (more)

Seitzville - Crossing Cordorus Creek. The Northern Central's Locomotive #17 "York" rumbles across the concrete and steel bridge spanning Cordorus Creek, on a cool, damp fall day. ... (more)

Fall comes to the Northern Central. The gentle fall of the colorful autumn leaves under a cool, gray sky provides an idyllic setting in which to photograph the passage of an equally colorfu... (more)

The uniform was a little different back then. A Northern Central Railway engine crew takes a brief moment to relax as they await orders from a station agent, to continue their journey south... (more)

Historic Hanover Junction. The Northern Central's Locomotive #17 "York" arrives at Hanover Junction with a passenger train that originated in her namesake city, about 20 miles to ... (more)

Currier & Ives. Like a scene straight off a Currier & Ives colored lithograph, the Northern Central Railroad's Locomotive 17 "York" takes a short passenger consist south through S... (more)

Through the Rockies, not around them. So proclaimed the motto of the Denver & Rio Grande, later known as the Denver & Rio Grande Western. In order to accomplish that goal, the D&RGW laid ... (more)

Taking it slow.... D&RGW Locomotive #478 slowly eases a late afternoon Silverton Mixed around the horseshoe curve, on the High Line in Rockwood, CO. Her engineer has her doing about 5 mph... (more)

The Silverton. The throaty bark of a D&RGW K-28 Locomotive echos off the nearby hills as she struggles up the 2.5% grade between Hermosa and Rockwood, CO with an early morning Silverton Tra... (more)

Steamscape: American Flat. Just north of American Flat Tunnel, a V&T Freight passes through a rock cut and begins to traverse the wide, sweeping horseshoe curve at American Flat. Known as ... (more)