The 10:00 A.M. Santa Steam Spectacular nears New Hope, PA as it cruises through the snow covered countryside just outside New Hope, PA with 2-8-0 #40 in charge.

The Soo Line passed under the Great Northern at Westminster Junction as well, just to the west of the Northern Pacific Tracks. In this view, my father lensed a short local traveling northbound wi... (more)

Alco RSD-5 2159 was one of the yard switchers on duty at ATSF’s joint yard with C&S at Pueblo, Colo. on Jan. 23, 1966.

Looking like a Star Wars scene In February of 2006 the weather was no different from a typical Sierra Nevada Winter. In this scene the UP 604 pauses in Truckee, CA while the storm continu... (more)

The replica of the famed Central Pacific Jupiter takes turns with the 119 to be operated for three days in the winter for a special steam festival. Engineer Thomas Brown braces himself in the cold... (more)

D&RGW 315 being turned near the snowshed at Cumbres Summit.

Nevada Northern No. 40 heads towards Keystone with a work train.

A Roger Puta Photograph

I know it's an ALCO but there is a steam engine back there. WM 301 leads helpers for Reading 2102. A Roger Puta Photograph

After slowing to make sure that no one is going to slide into the grade crossing, the engineer notches out Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern U33B 3301 as it works through the sleepy village of Loc... (more)

One of 10 LIRR RS-3's rests between assignments at Oyster Bay. These units would not be around long enough to get the blue and white MTA paint. LIRR 1552 was sold to Naporano the following June an... (more)

There's plenty of steam leaking and visible because of the cold as this Big Boy charges up Sherman Hill.

Opening Cumbres Pass after a brutal winter in 1997.... The Rotary Snow Plow is cutting into a deep drift as it approaches Windy Point....

Rounding Ptarmigan Point. After flailing away for nearly 30 minutes at a long, deep drift on the west shore of Lake Fraser, the White Pass Rotary Fleet finally rounds Ptarmigan Point and he... (more)

The 'Steptoe Valley Flyer', using the original First-Class passenger car #5 (built in 1882), the original Baggage/Railway Post Office car #20 (built in 1906), and pulled by their original 4-6-0 st... (more)