Sanding the flues. Black Hills Central Railroad Locomotive #108 pours out a strong, salt and pepper plume as she hauls the first "1880 Train" of the day past the second crossing a... (more)

Morning blow-down. With Locomotive #108 positioned just short of the the wooden trestle at the north end of the Hill City Yard, Black Hills Central Engineer Cesar and his fireman open the b... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Life Savor display train shoves back on the house track as it begins its journey to LA.

J&L 58 was built by the HK Porter Company in Pittsburgh, PA in 1937. It was used by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation at their South Side Works, also in Pittsburgh.

Western Maryland 1309 charges up the grade amid the wonderful fall colors at Woodcock Hollow.

Seeing double. Yes indeed, there are two, big, Baldwin 2-6-6-2T, articulated, compound mallet locomotives steaming in the yard at Hill City, SD this morning. The duty engine for the first... (more)

Mount Washington Cog loco No 10 Kroflite leaves from the base station. No 10 seems to be much newer than the rest of the steam fleet, dating from 1972 according to Wikipedia.

To celebrate 175 years railways in Switzerland, on the weekend of october 15/16, 2022, the "Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn" with locomotive D 1/3 # 1 "Limmat" circulated between Koblenz... (more)

On October 20, 2022, Rio Grande K-37 2-8-2 No. 491 and Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 No. 20, both 3-foot narrow gauge locomotives, sit on Track 1 and 2 in the roundhouse at the Colorado Railroad Museu... (more)

Sunset on the Albany & Eastern. As the early October sun dips below the hills to the west of Tallman, OR, Santa Maria Valley Locomotive #205 brings several loads south out of Albany to the ... (more)

Street running in small-town America. In the early morning mist, the crew of a local freight carefully makes its way down a residential street in a small town in the Pacific Northwest.

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Crossing Thomas Creek. Residents of the tiny town of West Scio, OR stop to catch up with each other on the highway just north of the historic Gilkey Covered Bridge, as Santa Maria Valley Ra... (more)

Running West Olive St.: It's a tight fit. On a cloudy, misty morning, Santa Maria Valley Locomotive #205 steam cleans the resident's parked vehicles as she slowly makes her way down West Ol... (more)

The narrow-guage 760mm steam locomotive Px29-1704 hauling a special passenger train from Snieciska to Sroda Miasto.

1309 slows while arriving at the station in Frostburg.