Strange Bedfellows. Awaiting Monday morning's call to duty, two MCER motors spend the night in Palmer. Smartly-painted #960 is a Milwaukee Road veteran (and past benefactor of a MILW... (more)

Facing On A Single Track... With half a world behind each back, loaded and empty coal drags face off on New Year's Day. The empty P&W-powered train on the siding came from the Port... (more)

Weekend Off. With the railroad essentially shut down for the New Years holiday, this coal drag for PSNH's Bow plant will have to wait to be unloaded. Not only are no crews on duty ... (more)

Black Is The New Red? Despite perceptions by the non-railfan public that a caboose is red, they came in a lot of colors, although the G&U's rolling office is the first one I have se... (more)

Dashing Through The lack of Snow... Headed south on the Providence main, P&W's passenger extra rolls through a short through-truss bridge in Millbury, en route to Rhode Islan... (more)

Classic. With a shortline consist that probably would have made Lucious Beebe proud, the G&U heads towards West Upton, bringing Santa Claus to visit with the kids. When they left N... (more)

Upriver. Each winter, the Valley Railroad stays busy late into the Christmas season with holiday runs along the scenic Connecticut River. On an unseasonably warm December afternoon... (more)

Not A Sleigh, But... I always thought Santa Claus traveled in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer, not Budd coaches drawn by two EMDs. But, it seems to work for all concerned as the ... (more)

Over The River. Crossing the Merrimack on the same bridge that felt the weight of Boston & Maine steam locomotives, 694 accelerates away from the Haverhill stop, with one more in th... (more)

Backup Plan. With nothing moving at Guilford's nearby East Deerfield Yard, Amtrak's Vermonter crossing the big bridge at Millers Falls is often a convenient backup plan, at least un... (more)

Where We Used To Roam. PRR 4859 led the first electric-powered passenger train into Harrisburg way back on January 15th, 1938. 72 years later, she survives as a display piece under... (more)

Back To The Future. In the largest city in Lackawanna County, the Lackawanna once again lives on through the work of the ARHS and Tri-State NRHS, who teamed up to repaint their F3 s... (more)

Steam In The Electric City. Ready for one last day together under steam, CN 3254 and CP 2317 sit in the roundhouse before the day begins. The one-time rivals are now stablemates in... (more)

Retirement Party. Quite the crowd turned out to see CPR 2317 on her last day in service. As she stepped lightly onto the turntable, there was just enough of a gap in the crowd to l... (more)