Baldwin class of 1944 from ATSF in Sacramento. This 2-10-4, recently received a cosmetic touch up to make its appearance less of the eye sore that it was in recent years. Wouldn't it have been som... (more)

1218 is eastbound at Pearisburg, VA in route from Bluefield to Roanoke with a coal train.

1218 has just exited the 213 ft long Point Tunnel. This is the first of many tunnels she will pass through as she climbs the famous Southern Loops to Asheville, NC.

Grand Trunk Western 6325 storms southward on the Ohio Central with a freight train during a rail photography weekend.

An eastbound towing four radio control cars probably going to the scrapper. A Roger Puta Photograph

Dark-Side reflection at Beaver Dam. The dark side of the beaver pond at the west end of Beaver Dam Country Club offers the best reflection shot on the WSOR, with SOO 1003 throwing really ni... (more)

Switching Moves at Randolph. With just a reefer and caboose in tow, the big Mikado, SOO 1003 moves east toward a switch that will give her access to a long string of sand hoppers on the adj... (more)

Entering Burnett. Just a few miles north of Horicon, Wisconsin, lies the tiny hamlet of Burnett, which is home to a few hundred people and the Peachy Brothers Grain Elevator complex that cl... (more)

Two of Roanoke's finest perform a rare side-by-side mainline runby- the 1218 with empty hoppers and the 611 pulling a passenger trainload of conventioneers.

32 years…… It had been 32 years since the symphony of steam had last echoed through Soledad Canyon as former Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 returns to her home in Los Angeles after being on hand at Vince... (more)

What Southern Superpower might have looked like; except for the TP herald on the feedwater heater. Just happened upon this scene after leaving Monticello with my late grandparents- we had no idea... (more)

LA JUNTA CO March 11 1980 -- A Santa Fe SD39 (a Locotrol master) leads a train on a mostly cloudy day. Note multiple antennas on the 4012 and exhaust smoke from mid-train slave units.

By the mid 1980’s, freight traffic on Santa Fe’s Raton line was sparse, but not virtually nonexistent as it is today. Some of those few trains could, however be heavy enough to require helpers... (more)

Amtraks southbound Southwest Chief winds through the fire charred forest of northern New Mexico shortly before making its final station stop before hitting the open plains, Raton, New Mexico.

After 8 years of languish and vandalism on a siding in Sacramento, ATSF 5021 shows off fresh paint and new lettering on a nice warm Northern California summer night, these engines look way better ... (more)