A place you can go to run a 100+ year-old steam locomotive - yeah, right! But it is not a myth and you do not have to capture a unicorn to find the Nevada Northern Railway in Ely, Nevada. In 2007 I partook of this fantastical realm of railroad reverence...

Rachel, a Vulcan Iron Works 1920 2-4-4T steam loco.

Darkstar may not be familiar to model railroaders, but their range of metallic acrylics, Molten Metals, are superb. Any modeling genre in need of a metallic paint should know of this company primarily known to the sci-fi and fantasy and wargaming commun...

Here are photos I shot in the Big Boy’s cab at the St Louis Transportation Museum in Sept., 2002, while awaiting my trip on the Frisco 1522 Farewell Excursion. I scanned these, and you will find duplicates. That is because when I modified the pictures, s...