UP 4-8-4 836 and a set of E-units hustle across York Street minutes from Denver Union Terminal with Train 18, the in-bound Portland Rose, on one of the last regular passenger assignments behind st... (more)

Called out of storage to help with the harvest, UP USRA 2-8-2 2498 has been gathering sugar beets. Now, late in the afternoon, train and crew dash for the Great Western Sugar Company refinery at B... (more)

The SY0418 is crossing the main road of Hanwang. It is one of the last active standard gauged steam locomotives in Sichuan. This locomotive stopped in the middle of September 2013

Photographer- unknown- from my personal collection. 35mm Anscochrome slide. July 11, 1959 finds Y6b 2174 performing a photo run by at the giant Trace Fork viaduct on the Dry Fork Branch of the ... (more)

SP&S Locomotive 621, rebuilt in Portland roundhouse from SP&S Locomotive 107. The original locomotive was built in August 1910 (Class D-1 4-6-0). Locomotive re-entered service on December 22, 19... (more)

Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 no. 608 surrounded by freight cars in the yard behind Denver Union Station in 1958. Photograph by more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western K-37 2-8-2 no. 491 leading an eastbound extra freight train up Cumbres Pass at Windy Point, New Mexico, in July 1961. Photograph by more)

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Standby power lays over in the coach yard next to (then) Philadelphia Municipal Stadium on the south side.

One of the L&N Railroad's notable "Big Emma" 2-8-4s, Baldwin M-1 class 1964, appears clean and freshly painted in this 1954 view at Barbourville, KY. The train is approaching the Cumberl... (more)

The diminutive PRR 4-4-2, #460, waits under the coal chute at Atlantic City as John's friend Bill Rosenberg looks on. The friendly PRSL employe partially dden by the coal chute supports, allowed t... (more)

Our Central America Rail Tours special heads out of Guatemala City across Las Vacas bridge toward Zacapa. Riding the boxcar tops across Las Vacas was more than a little exciting.

Stearns, KY was roughly mid-way between Cincinnati and Chattanooga on Southern Railway's Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific subsidiary. A northbound local behind heavy USRA Mike 6319 (Souther... (more)

L&N Railroad Cumberland Valley Division northbound train 44 from Lynch to Corbin sails around the curve at Ponza, KY, at the north end of the yard at Page. The bridge crosses Yellow Creek, while t... (more)