Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 No. 614 storms up the hill out of Port Jervis, N.Y., on NJ Transit/Metro North.

The Chessie Safety Express marches into its destination of Somerset, Pennsylvania. C&O 4-8-4 #614 has brought the long yellow train from Cumberland, Maryland.

The southbound Orange Blossom Special has arrived at the Conrail/CSX interchange, and the power has uncoupled and run to the CSX East Side yard office. Here a yard crew shoves a Philly block towar... (more)

Southbound C&O train passing through Fostoria

1309 Driver being moved to be prepared for shipment.

Today another major componet of the 109 rebuild took place when the 109 was lifted off her drivers. Boiler work is proceeding and the tender is near completion.

Son Mike and his cousin Lisa observe as the engineer prepares the narrow gauge steam locomotive for a trip at the Brookfield Zoo. Unlike most amusement park trains, this railroad functioned simila... (more)

A Roger Puta photograph

The train is The George Washington A Roger Puta photograph

The builder's plate still adorns the insulated smokebox jacketing on venerable old excursion engine #2716. The locomotive has been kept under a shed roof, just a few feet away from L&N 152 which i... (more)

A local switching somewhere in lower Michigan.

The excitement continues at the WMSR as work progresses on the 1309. This week Scott Lindsay of Steam Operations Corporation brought his experts to Cumberland to do an ultrasonic scan of the 1309'... (more)

CO 7504 lead a BO GP9 and Chessie GP40-2 on an eastbound freight east out of Ravenna, Ohio on a dreary snowless winter day in 1981.

C&O 5833 (without a trace of Hocking Valley ownership) sits among friends overnight. Taken on Hocking Valley property with permission.

Ross Rowland's C&O #614 sits on display dressed in a proposed "Greenbrier... (more)