Built in March of 1944 by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Southern Pacific #4294 earned its keep by pulling freight trains over Donner Pass. Locomotive #4294 was the last of 20 Southern Pacific class AC... (more)

On its trip back west, the Big Boy 2021 Tour makes a stop in Kirkwood, Missouri in front of the iconic ex-Missouri Pacific passenger depot.

At Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, on the final day of the "Victorian Iron Horse Round-up," D. & R.G. 168 arrived pre-dawn on the east end of the railway, having traveled overnight fro... (more)

UP 4014 runs past a snow fence at Antelope, Wyoming.

Eureka and Glenbrook pull up past the old Osier depot towards the new eating house.

From Right to Left, Eureka and Palisade #4 (1875), Florence and Cripple Creek/Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 #20 (1899), D&RG/D&RGW 168, and Florence and Cripple Creek/D&RG 425 (aka, D&RGW 315)

A broadside view of CN 6200 on a sunny morning. It has 73 inch drivers and a Vandberbilt tender. Underneath the cab window is '57%,' representing a tractive effort of nearly 57,000 pounds (56,785 ... (more)

Big Boy And The Big Easy. On the afternoon of Friday, August 20, 2021, Union Pacific Railroad's 4-8-8-4 4014 (Big Boy) crossed the Mississippi River over Huey P. Long Bridge with the city o... (more)

Lights from nearby parking lots, building and cars illuminate Union Pacific's Big Boy 4014 as it sits the night in Sidney, Nebraska.

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 arrives in Julesburg, Colorado where it will stop and greet the large crowd that has turned out to see the huge marvel of engineering.

Pennsy K4s No. 1361 has a respectable 8 cars in tow, crossing over at ROSE with a Bellefonte-Altoona excursion. The limit for a K4s up the mountain was 6 cars; hopefully we will get to see No. 13... (more)

Code Poles and Track Speed
Ed Dickens is on the fireman side for his watchful eye over the Overland Route right of way in western Nebraska. Running track speed near Ogallala, N... (more)

Shay 5 was the only steam locomotive operated at IRM in 2020. Here it is departing East Union with a train of socially-distanced passengers.

No. 611 simmers outside the Strasburg shop on its first day of excursions service on "The Road To Paradise" for 2021.

Built in 1911 by the Lima Locomotive Works for Bloedel Stewart & Welch this 2-truck Shay is now the "gate guardian" for the BC Forestry Discovery Centre.