Just a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=175940

I first saw the 40 as a young kid in a Railroad magazine article in the very early 1950s, when the RR was still booming. Hard to believe it still runs. I'll have to get out there and see it when I retire.

The 93, in a shot worthy of Steinheimer:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=175571

In color:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=175573

Don't wait, come now. Its a lot like desert. I know people who eat desert first, because life is uncertain. We're in the process of winding down from the photo shoots. I'll post some of the photos in the near future.

I strongly recommend a visit to Nevada Northern! I rode their trains last summer (steam to the west and diesel to the north) and it was worth driving to Ely, Nevada, which is a long way from much of anything. The steam train goes through a tunnel and is turned on a wye at the end, so you have the locomotive leading both ways. The fireman was a young man I had met at Orange Empire, where he learned about steam on our oil-burning 2-6-2. Here he was doing what I called "post-graduate" work on a coal burner. Even the train was interesting, with a bench-equipped gondola for the fresh-air fans and photographers, and two ex-Illinois Central electric-suburban trailers for us traction fans. The diesel (pulling the same train) was an Alco RS-3. Between trains I took the guided tour of the railroad shops--industrial archaeology that still works. Next day my wife and I headed west on "The Loneliest Road"--US 50 to Reno and then south to Carson City, where I checked up on the McKeen Car project. US 50 ends in Sacramento, not far from the California State RR Museum.

A new series of images from the Feb. 2007 photo shoots at the Nevada Northern Railway Museum has just been posted:
http://nevadanorthernrailway.net/thrott ... 022307.htm