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 of the Big Boy’s cab at the St Louis Transportation Museum in Sept., 2002, shot 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, som...