R32 on C3/4. The R32 holiday/farewell train is seen relaying through Tremont Ave Station on its way back to Manhattan. Rather than terminating on the middle track at 145th St, the train... (more)

The Friends of the 261 North Pull Express makes its short run down the tracks from the Saint Paul Union Depot to the "North Pole" set up just east of the station. In the lead is the Nort... (more)

The Christmas Lantern Express departs for the second run of the day as Southern 154 does the honors of leading the eastbound trip up the grade by the athletic parks for the University of Tennessee... (more)

Festive Farewell. New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R32 no. 3894 (Budd, 1964-1965) is decked out with a festive wreath as it leads a fast express train through Beverley Rd. Just en... (more)

Eat, Drink and Be Merry! With just enough snow on the ground to set the mood for the season, Naugatuck Railroad 686 (née-NW 686, GP9, 3/1959) is getting ready to lead the final Railroad Mu... (more)

1309 pulls one of the night time trips to the North Pole, seen here just outside of Cumberland, Md.

It's still dark this morning in Portland as crew members from the Friends of the 4449 work to complete the final preparations before taking the 80-year-old product of Lima south to Oaks Park to op... (more)

Debut of the (finally!) operational #819 leading a day-long North Pole Express run to Watertown. Subsequent NPE's turned back to Nashville before they reached this spot.

For the holidays, CFRC has decorated its trains with antlers....on both the nose of loco & logo on side of coaches.

Yale Bowl Car. Fair Haven & Westville Railroad Co. 355 (15 bench open car, J.G. Brill, 1902) sits by the Visitors Center at the Connecticut Trolley Museum on the night of Friday, December 1... (more)

Black River & Western 60 prepares to depart Flemington with a sold-out, 6-car train. With every seat on the train filled, extra cars were added to accommodate the passengers.

The Happy Holiday Railway heads west in the last minutes of sunlight with BN-3 as it smokes it up past a pair of CPL’s on the Illinois Railway Museum Mainline.

The Grotto. While there are still lots of other trains running there this season, on the night of Thursday, December 9, 2021, Railroad Museum of New England's Litchfield Hills BBQ & Whiskey... (more)

The CNJ 113 is heading upgrade to Minersville on the Reading and Northern's new 136-lb. continuous welded rail on the old Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven Branch. The engine was built by Alco in 1923... (more)

Steamy Christmas in Florida and it's not just the locomotive, highs today challenged 90F / 32C. This was the second year that United States Sugar ran this popular trip.