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Black 5 45407 steams eastwards along the banks of Loch Eilt at Ranochan, between Mallaig and Fort William with the Jacobite, Monday 1.5.17
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NKP 765 tears apart New Lenox, IL with this excursion train eastbound out of Joliet, IL heading to Chicago. Just an amazing sensory overload of a steam locomotive at 60mph.
I was mooching around Vasser de Sus depot one evening just soaking up the atmosphere and revelling in the fact that I was in a working steam depot with no H&S restrictions and soooo much to photograph when this 1954 Resita steam engine parked itself outside the log shed to take on some wood, being a wood burning loco.
The light coming through the lattice wood panelling became diffused by the steam and created a magical effect.
It was very cramped but I quickly managed to set myself up for a series of shots of which this was my favourite. I love the starburst behind the funnel.
The headland at Cwm Nash, a great place with nesting fulmars, coughs raven and peregrine. Steam appeared to be rising from the cliff top, due to the cloud formation.
Love all the of the old industrial buildings left over from the Victorian times in North West England. This an old warehouse for a seed company, and later converted into offices. Situated on the shropshire union canal. built in 1834
Elk jaar organiseert de Stoom Stichting Nederland (SSN) in oktober haar open dagen. Omdat de SSN geen eigen spoorlijn heeft, wordt er gependeld tussen en stoomdepot en Gouda Goverwelle. Dit jaar ben naar ons bijna vaste punt langs de lijn bij Moordrecht gegaan, waar we de treinen voorbij zagen komen. Dit jaar waren naast de 23 023 en 01 1075 van de SSN ook de 23 076 en 50 307 van de VSM weer aanwezig. Mijn oudste zoon stond met zijn Lego treinen op het depot, waar ik met mijn dochter op zondag met de stoomtrein heen reden.
Every year the Dutch Steam Foundation (SSN) organizes its open days in October. Because the SSN does not have its own railway line, it commutes between a steam depot and Gouda Goverwelle. This year we went to our almost favourite spot along the line at Moordrecht, where we saw the trains passing by. This year, in addition to the SSN's 23 023 and 01 1075, the VSM's 23 076 and 50 307 were also present. My eldest son was at the depot with his Lego trains, where my daughter and I would ride the steam train there on Sundays.
Jedes Jahr organisiert die Dutch Steam Foundation (SSN) im Oktober ihre Tage der offenen Tür. Da die SSN über keine eigene Eisenbahnlinie verfügt, pendelt sie zwischen einem Dampfdepot und Gouda Goverwelle. Dieses Jahr besuchte ich unseren fast festen Standort an der Strecke bei Moordrecht, von wo aus wir die Züge vorbeifahren sahen. Neben den SSN-Lokomotiven 23 023 und 01 1075 waren auch die VSM-Lokomotiven 23 076 und 50 307 zu sehen. Mein ältester Sohn war mit seinen Lego-Zügen im Depot, wo meine Tochter und ich sonntags mit der Dampfzug fuhren.
On February 3, 2015 BNSF moved D&NE 28 (former DM&IR 332) from Cloquet to Duluth so restoration on the 2-8-0 could continue at the LSRM. Work to return the steam engine to service continues this winter and the museum hopes to have 28 pulling trains on the NSSR in 2016.
For 'Steam Sunday' here is another three for the price of one offering from the legendary mountain climbing narrow gauge gold rush route.
The White Pass & Yukon Route's "rotary fleet" consisting of vintage snowplow #3 (Cooke - 1899) is marching upgrade trailed by twin steam locomotives #73 (Baldwin 2-8-2 blt. 5-47) and #69 (Baldwin 2-8-0 blt. 4-07) and coach 211 as it heads for White Pass summit and the Canadian border to do battle with the snow drifts in the time honored tradition. This is the task for which she was built 111 years ago. The train is two miles shy of the summit at the international border and once reached will have climbed 2885 ft. from Tidewater at the head of Taiya Inlet in the distance of only about 20 miles!
Here the train is just starting on to the 1969 line change that included about a mile of new right of way and a new 250 ft long deck girder bridge and 675 ft long tunnel (adding a second bore to the route) to replace the decaying structure in the foreground. This was necessitated when the railroad secured a contract to haul heavy ore trains loaded near Whitehorse with lead-zinc ore originating from Cyprus Anvil's Faro mine, at one time the largest open pit lead-zinc in the world. The ore was loaded into buckets and then trucked some 240 miles from the mine to the railhead where they were lifted off the truck chassis onto flat cars for the 110 mile trip by rail. These ore trains operated nearly around the clock for 13 years and were the lifeblood of the WP&Y until the bottom fell out in 1982.
This bridge in the foreground is the famous steel cantilever bridge that opened in 1901 replacing a torturous temporary switchback route that was used for the road's first year to get the line around Deadhorse Gulch, so named for the more than 3000 pack animals that perished here during the Gold Rush of 1897-98. The 840 ft. long and 215 ft. high cantilever arch bridge consists of two side spans of 80 ft. each, and a central span of 240 ft. It was designed by the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Co., of New York City and was constructed by the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co.
This shot was taken from the old right of way on the north side of the span near where a covered turntable once stood used to turn locomotives after they reversed direction on the switchback. To see an amazing photo looking up from the bottom of the gulch check out this link: digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/...
And for more historic photos that include the aforementioned turntable and the switchback try these: www.whitepassfan.net/along-the-route/bridges/18a-steel-ca...
wpyphotos.com/along/switchback/switchback.html
And to read more here is a reproduction of a 1901 article on the remarkable structure: www.railsnorth.com/wpyr-cantilever_bridge-eng_news-1901.html
White Pass and Yukon Railroad
MP 18.6 (from Skagway, AK)
April 27, 2011
QJs 3487 and 1850 with JS 5290 on a westbound freight at Weizigou a short time after leaving Tumen on the line towards Jilin. All locomotives were in steam but I think that the JS was being taken to the workshops for overhaul.
JS 5644 stands at the entrance to the yard at the Tianzhuang depot of the Pingdingshan Coal Railway ready to go back to work after servicing. It was well worth creeping quietly into the depot at shift change to capture images of the locos at night.
With steam everywhere, Ex S&DJ Fowler '7F' 2-8-0 no.53808 pilots Bulleid ‘BB’ 4-6-2 no.34070 ‘Manston’ away from Minehead Station with the first train of the day, 09:25 to Bishops Lydeard
My last day in Scotland on this particular trip. I spent the morning chasing the Jacobite steam train across the glens. Here it is having left Corpach station heading for Mallaig. I found a small jetty sticking out into the water so, having crossed the track, I was stuck there until the train had passed.
Valley Railroad Mikado 40 leads a train north departing Essex with some peak foliage still hanging on to the trees.
For today's Steam Sunday here's another from a recent visit to Connecticut's Valley Railroad which does business as the Essex Steam Train and Riverboat. Saturday May 10th was National Train Day and also the opening day of the railroad's 2025 excursion season. They had three regular train and riverboat round trips scheduled as well as a diesel powered Mother's Day lunch train and an evening dinner train running.
The 2 PM third train of the day from Essex is seen at the Deep River boat dock after running north to Chester and Hadlyme. Valley Railroad 2-8-2 'Mikado' New Haven 3025 is crossing Kirtland St. at MP 7.7 on the old New Haven Valley Line as they run around their train to run tender first back to Essex. Behind the locomotive is the Becky Thatcher, the railroad’s 1961 built three deck 150 passenger riverboat that sails up the Connecticut River on a 1 1/4 hr trip past Gillette Castle up to Haddam and back.
3025 is China Railways SY class built new in 1989 by the Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works for Pennsylvania's Knox & Kane Railroad where it spent its life until that railroad's demise following the collapse of that lines signature attraction, the Kinzua Viaduct. It was purchased by the VRR in 2008 and was rebuilt as a functional replica of a New Haven J-1 'Mikado' locomotive like the type that once plied this line in local service and re-numbered 3025, one number above the last of the original class on the NYNH&H.
Information above courtesy of the Valley Railroad web site and more history can be found here: essexsteamtrain.com/about/history/
Deep River, Connecticut
Saturday May 10, 2025
Took a steam train from Holt,the smell was gorgeous.Spent the entire journey hanging my head out the window like a dog,getting splattered with flies and bits of coal :0)) Happy wednesday friends love and peace.
Many thanks my beautiful friends for your ongoing support and friendship xx
Abstracting with the steam coming out of a volcano vent as it washes over the leaves of the surrounding plants. I wanted to capture the motion of the leaves as the steam flowed across them. It took several attempts to get the steam and leaf action to be just the right mix.
Volcano National Park, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, December 2018
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Soo Line 2-8-2 1003 was departing Horicon on the Wisconsin and Southern on a chilly winter day in 2006.
Back in the fun pre-Watco era, things on the Wissor were quite interesting.
This unique 6" Steam Wagon is an impressive engine based on a Burrell prototype from 1901. Burrell Steam Wagons never had the best reputation but fortunately this half-size replica is an excellent and strong performer on road and rally field.
The Burrell, registered in 2007 as KX07 NMF, is seen at the Welland Steam Rally on 29th July 2023.
We were out sailing on Oosterschelde and the steam tug Waratah kept approaching us to have a look. Waratah belongs to Sydney Heritage Fleet and was built in 1902.
5.5.2013. One from the library.
GWR Churchward designed '43xx' Class 2-6-0 No 5322 steams through the woods on the GWS demonstration line at Didcot.
Curving through Shiels Hill, 6S42 to Thirlmere continues it’s trip toward Thirlmere with the return of carriages from Hunter Valley Steamfest.
class 5 4-6-0 45231 leaves a trail of steam across the Cheshire plain with a test run from crewe to telford
photo by my wife