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An unidentified K-36 2-8-2 stands in the Cumbres & Toltec yard in Chama, New Mexico after an apparent overhaul and repainting. It’s late May, and the M... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-0 346 rests outside the Colorado Railroad Museum. The lighting shows off the consolidation’s Russia Iron boiler jacket.

Surrounded by preserved narrow-gauge freight cars, Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-0 346 pauses by the No Agua water tank at the Colorado Railroad Museum. The museum hosted a special night session... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge K-36 class 2-8-2 486 stands on display at the Royal Gorge Park. If you have visited the Durango & Silverton since 1999, you may have seen the 486 on the pr... (more)

Running light, Chicago & North Western GP7 4207 pauses at the station at Marinette, Wisconsin.

After train activity diminished in the Green Bay area for the day, we took a side trip to Stiles Junction Ohio, where an ex-MILW RSC2 was reportedly being kept. When we got there, the Alco was now... (more)

Chicago & North Western C628 6716 rolls Escanaba - Green Bay train ESGB-A through the back alleys of Oconto, Wisconsin.

Our chase of a southbound Chicago & North Western local suffered a brief interruption due to a track inspection. Here a friend of mine waits impatiently for the contract crew to get the inspection... (more)

Chicago & North Western Escanaba – Green Bay train ESGB-A passes the grain silos at Little Suamico, Wisconsin. This train usually rated a C628 given a temporary day off from its usual ore train du... (more)

Canadian National light derrick 50367 spends the weekend on a siding in Gananoque, Ontario.

Twelve thousand horsepower of GM 40-series diesels roll a westbound Canadian National manifest through Brockville, Ontario. Assisting the lead SD40 are three GP40-2W’s.

A Canadian National van punctuates an eastbound train at Brockville, Ontario.

Former Reading 4-8-4 2102 eases through Temple, Pennsylvania with former Gulf, Mobile & Northern 4-6-2 425. The Pacific has remained a staple of the Blue Mountain & Reading/Reading & Northern excu... (more)

The Reading heritage unit leads Norfolk Southern train 13R south through Reidsville, North Carolina on a 95° June afternoon.

Bethlehem Steel’s Patapsco & Back Rivers painted one of its EMD-re-engined Baldwin S12’s in a bicentennial scheme. Here the tribute unit works at the mill in Sparrows Point, Maryland.