IAIS 6988 pulls a short cut of freight cars west towards Newton, IA after a few days of excursions out in Illinois.

An unidentified QJ climbs the long grade out of the steel making city of Anshan in northeast China. Lacking number plates and with chalk marks on the smokebox the loco is likely making a test run ... (more)

A steam-powered regular train of the Weißeritztalbahn 750-mm-gauge railway in Saxony, Germany crosses the S-shaped viaduct across the core of the village. This railway was damaged along its entir... (more)

A steam-powered regular train of the Weißeritztalbahn 750-mm-gauge railway in Saxony, Germany steams up the Rabenauer Grund canyon of the Rote Weißeritz river. This section of the railway (like ... (more)

The class LV locomotive was designed as a successor to the class L 2-10-0, which had been a successful design developed during World War II. However, by the late 1940s some drawbacks to the design... (more)

This is a photo of Iowa Interstate's July 4, 2019 passenger excursion, to benefit the Oxford, IA fire department. Taken at 10:05 A.M. this would have been the first of five runs that day. Location... (more)

Regular Train

QJ 6988 crosses the UP diamonds on the return trip to Newton.

Henry Posner III waves as he gets ready to engineer the QJ back to Newton after a July 4th fire department fundraiser at Oxford.

IAIS 6988 "The Iowa Bolt" charges out of Oxford with the first excursion run of the day benefiting the Oxford Volunteer Fire Department.

The steam locomotive OKz32-2 hauling a special passenger train from Chabówka to Limanowa.