A mainline charter train

In 2023 the GWR Castle 4-6-0 locos celebrate their centenary year. What better way to celebrate than for a pair to showcase their performance on the UK mainline, culminating in the assault of the ... (more)

Stanier LMS class 7P Royal Scot 46115 SCOTS GUARDSMAN has just crossed Docker Viaduct with 1Z86 06.48 London Euston to Appleby The Cumbrian Mountain Express steam on from Carnforth. unfortunately ... (more)

After crossing the Border bridge at Berwick, the train had to wait for a couple of service trains to pass before it could continue to Edinburgh. North of berwick it runs close to the north sea as ... (more)

Late afternoon in Laws. Southern Pacific 10-wheeler #18 sits at the south end of the little railroad yard in Laws, California, at the end of a sparking March day, awaiting her next call to ... (more)

The "Pink Hour" at Laws. Between first light and the first appearance of the morning sun over the mountains to the east, the Owens Valley experiences an interesting optical phenom... (more)

Edinburgh-York Charter and return

Scots Guardsman crosses the river Tweed on the Royal Border bridge with an excursion from York to Edinburgh

Mulhouse "Cité du Train" railway museum: 4-6-0 "Tenwheeler" fourcylinder compound express train steamlocomotive # 1314 of the MIDI (Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi), buil... (more)

V&T #25 pulls the Nevada State RR Museum's Santa Train out of the depot at Carson City.

Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 No. 168 has just finished climbing the east slope of Cumbres Pass as a helper on a double-headed passenger special the afternoon of August 27, 2021. The locomotive is abo... (more)

Preserved "B1 Class" loco 61306 "Mayflower" heads "The Cotswold Explorer" railtour past Ebley Crossing. This was an excursion from Norwich to Worcester.

Night moves. The crew of Southern Pacific Locomotive #18 stops to confer with their colleagues on SP Locomotive #9, as their two freights pass each other in the yard at Laws, California. <... (more)

A Slim Princess Sunset. The setting sun bursts through the cab windows of Southern Pacific Locomotive #18, the "Slim Princess", as a clear, chilly March day comes to an end in the... (more)

A busy afternoon in Laws. The little Southern Pacific Yard in Laws, California suddenly gets a bit busy with Locomotive #18 in the background freshly fueled and watered and ready to take th... (more)