Leaving Boston Massachusetts at 35 MPH on August 17th 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Steam at the Station. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 4-8-4 no. 2912 is seen sitting outside Pueblo Union Depot.

USSC Alco-built 148 waits patiently to take her train back to Clewiston. The passengers are on a layover in Lake Placid getting lunch.

CPKC 40B races east through Maple Springs and past a crowd of 40-50 people during the St. Paul to Portage leg of the Final Spike Tour.

CP 2816-1401-4107 lead 40B out of St. Paul Yard on the Red Rock Industrial Lead.

One of the oldest locomotives in Puerto Rico operated in the years 1918 and was built by the American Locomotive Company, Cooke Works.

Florida East Coast 148 races across the bridge at Rogers Road at track speed.

On a beautiful morning in the Twin Cities, CP 2816 makes its departure out of Pigs Eye Yard with a nice plume of smoke to boot. In charge of the Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour, the "Empre... (more)

CP 2816 approaches Tower B17 on the final stretch to Bensenville Yard just outside of Chicago on the CPKC Final Spike Steam Tour. Too bad the KCS is hardly represented on this train other than a f... (more)

Day 2 of the Final Spike Tour and we are at the TransCanada Highway between Hatton & Maple Creek.

The diesel passenger run poses briefly with the Chinese 2-8-2, which is slowly coming around, a process we got to witness firsthand in the cab. The "awakening" of a steamer is one of my... (more)

Rambling through on an eastbound excursion.

Old Meets the New. The FEC 148 steams ahead as a crop duster approaches on a parallel course.

Loading? The FEC 148 poses at the Liberty Point Elevator as a storm front approaches.

Florida East Coast 148 leads its cane train through Lake Harbor on a sunny spring morning.