SP 2-8-2 3250 leads an eighty four car eastbound freight at 25 MPH near Selma California in 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Clean-running. Running completely clean stack most of the time, CPKC's Canadian Pacific Hudson #2816 "Empress" charges toward the Highway 41 grade crossing south of Horatio, Arkan... (more)

Flying through Gillham, Arkansas. Making track speed of 50 mph and still technically loafing, CPKC's Canadian Pacific Hudson #2816 "Empress" rounds the sweeping curve at Milepost ... (more)

Betwixt the slumbering beasts. A Rio Grande Southern night hostler makes his rounds in the yard at Ridgway, CO, tending to a pair of simmering locomotives that are scheduled for an early mo... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western 491 works its freight train up the grade through The Cut on a sunny May morning.

The Southern Railway sisters 630 and 4501 leads the Summerville Doubleheader across South Chickamauga Creek making their way into Grand Junction about to complete the first Summerville Steam Speci... (more)

Strasburg Rail Road 89 leads its passenger train up the grade at Groundhog Cut on a beautiful May evening. PLEASE NOTE: This was taken on private property with permission. Do not trespass on pr... (more)

Stopped around Beaumont Place, on the outskirts of Houston TX along Highway 90 for some preventative maintenance on Saturday May 25, 2024. UP Houston sub.

I thought that I should pay homage to Otto by submitting this one hundred year old photographic capture that he took in Kansas City Missouri on June 6th 1924, 100 years ago today. Otto Conrad Perr... (more)

Engine 2816 rests at Deramus Yard as it is prepared for the following day's trip to Kendleton, Texas. The Final Spike Tour train was parked inside the former KCS Southern Belle shops next to the S... (more)

CNJ 113 rests in Minersville as steam begins enveloping its drivers.

Markham. During a weekend of excursions on the "B-Line" from Manassas to Front Royal, Virginia, Norfolk & Western 611 passes the long closed Southern Railway depot in Markham, Vir... (more)

Ex-New Zealand Government Railways Hillside Workshops built Ww class 4-6-4T 480 stands at Shakespeare Road on the Glenbrook Vintage Railway, on 24th March 2024. Passengers are able to alight the t... (more)

Rio Grande Southern 20 pulls out of the roundhouse early in the morning before a long day of work.

Durango & Silverton 473 and 480 start the steep climb up Hermosa Hill on a sunny May morning.