After a run from Los Angeles to San Diego, Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 (along with Amtrak P42DC 13) has turned and will spend the night here at the old Santa Fe Depot (now used by Amtrak and commuter agen... (more)

The beautifully restored ATSF 2926 gleams in the evening light as part of New Mexico Heritage Rail's first professional night photo session with the locomotive at the old, downtown Santa Fe Rail Y... (more)

Santa Fe Heritage Meets. ATSF 5704 baths in the morning sunlight at Los Angeles Union Station adjacent to an older Santa Fe predecessor, the Santa Fe 3751. Both locomotives, along with a BN... (more)

Enjoying her first weekend in North Carolina back in 2014, Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 611 will soon undergo a restoration twenty years after she was last fired up.

After the trip from Reading the 2102 Fall Excursion dropped the passengers at the Jim Thorpe Station for a four and a half hour layover. Here the 2102 starts its shove back to WYE the entire train... (more)

The last steam-powered Reading and Northern Fall Foliage Special of 2024 has emerged from the woods at Zehner's Siding and is about to parallel PA Route 443 (Clamtown Road) for a half mile or so.

RBM&N engineman Jim Cook climbs aboard T-1 #2102 on October 19, 2024 just prior to heading south for the Outer Station in Reading, PA.

The "beast" at blue hour. Just a few minutes after sunset, the massive AT&SF #2926 steams in the yard in Albuquerque, NM under lights provided by Lerro Photography. The recently ... (more)

Blue bird skies and peak fall foliage fills the valley outside of Molino, PA on the old Reading mainline as T-1 #2102 shuffles north with her Fall Foliage Special on the Reading & Northern along F... (more)

Now arriving from Gallup... In a possible preview of coming attractions, the massive Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe #2926 performs a short run-past at downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico's Alvara... (more)

AT&SF 2926: The front office. Here's a wide-angle view of the interior of the cab of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Locomotive #2926. Given the size of this nearly one-million-pound machine,... (more)

"Sun, steam and steel": Reading & Northern #2102, a 1945 product of the Reading Shops, slowly backs under the sanding tower in Port Clinton, PA on October 19, 2024. For those within rela... (more)

Putting on a pre-dawn show. With her cylinder cocks open, the massive Santa Fe Northern #2926 begins her pre-dawn show for photographers by conducting a couple of short run-bys in the Albuq... (more)

America's largest Northern. The largest operable 4-8-4 "Northern" locomotive in the United States is this massive beast, built by Baldwin for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railw... (more)

With train orders received Engineer Ryan Bausher tugs at the throttle and the big 4-8-4 Reading T-1 eases away from the R&N Port Clinton, PA offices on October 19, 2024 for Reading and a Fall Foli... (more)