The Committee on Welds of The Pressure Vessels Research Council is sponsoring a research program to investigate the creep behavior in each of the individual HAZ regions, such as the coarse grained region, fine grained region, and intercritical transformed region for ferritic Cr-Mo alloy steel weldments. To enhance the research in this program, the characteristics of ferritic Cr-Mo alloy steels are reviewed. Focus is on the characteristics of high temperature mechanical properties for 2 1/4 Cr-1Mo, 9Cr, 12Cr, and their modifications.