Glenbrook, vintage 1875, has been beautifully restored by the Nevada State Railroad Museum. In 2021 it finally got to stretch its legs on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic. It's seen here on a special... (more)

Steamscape: The Los Pinos Valley. High above the Los Pinos Creek, just west of Osier, CO, D&RGW Locomotive #425 takes a mixed train east through a deep rock cut at about MP 317.3. This vie... (more)

Our double-header featuring Nevada Northern #81 and #93 has continued up Robinson Canyon and is seen here crossing Gleason Creek as it gets closer to the turn to head to Ruth. The sun has deserte... (more)

The rain has come on the first day of the Trains Magazine photoshoot on the Nevada Northern, but rainy days can often create some interesting lighting. It's late afternoon, as Nevada Northern's n... (more)

After a day of testing in preparation for this year's North Pole Express trains, the Pere Marquette 1225 sits on the turntable at the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, Michigan. The use of a ... (more)

Ventura County Railway locomotive #2 simulates a night in Oxnard yard with some vintage wooden boxcars under a full moon. This photo was from last Saturday's night time photo shoot featuring the V... (more)

Sagebrush silhouette. Denver & Rio Grande Locomotive #425 and mixed train are silhouetted against the early morning sunlight as she charges across the lava-capped mesas of the New Mexico de... (more)

Steamscape: Lava Tank. The early morning sun back-lights the Northern New Mexico desertscape, as D&RG Locomotive #425 charges west with her mixed train, bound for Big Horn, Sublette, Osier ... (more)

On the loop at Lava. Moments after dawn, a Denver & Rio Grande mixed train rounds the loop at Lava Tank, near MP 291.4, on its westbound run toward Chama, NM, via Cumbres Pass. The power t... (more)

US Sugar moved their first loads of sugar cane for the season from Moore Haven to the sugar mill in Clewiston on October 1st, using Pacific number 148 to mark the occasion.

US Sugar moved their first loads of sugar cane for the season from Moore Haven to the sugar mill in Clewiston on October 1st, using Pacific number 148 to mark the occasion.

NKP 765 gets some quick service at the Bellevue engine shops before taking a train east.

Engineer Nick eases the largest locomotive on the Durango and Silverton's roster around the tight cliffs of the legendary High Line.

For the first time in 69 years, Nevada Northern 81 is under steam, pulling a freight train. As we were turning 93 on the wye, I asked my engineer to stop next to 81 to snap a quick picture of the ... (more)

Nickel Plate 765 backs down from the engine house in Bellevue, ready for another day of caboose hops during the "Berkshires in Bellevue" event.