The Last Prince of Washington: Just last year, eight of the Mount Washington Cog Railway’s 0-2-2-0s roamed up and down the face of the east’s tallest peak in northern New Hampshire. But today,... (more)

"Back In My Day:" My father has uttered it a million times while railfanning... 'back in my day this brush wasn't here... there were Alcos on this line... they still had operators... etc. But as I... (more)

Pan Am Railways Brunswick Local rolls through Freeport, Maine on the afternoon of July 2, 2010. As more and more PAR units get the new dip-blue paint job, the old grey and orange is getting rare..... (more)

Fathers Day and 70-tonners: Few locomotives depict classic New England shortline railroading as well as the General Electric 70-tonner. From the Montpelier and Barre to the Belfast and Moosehead L... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD45-2 No. 311, sporting MRLs newest image, rolls around the big curve at Ravalli, Mont. on the evening of May 19, 2010.

Surrounded: St. Maries River Railroad SW1200 No. 502 is literally surrounded by the life blood of its employer and owner. Logs and lumber have been the key to the roads existence since it started ... (more)

Finals Week: Being a journalism student at the University of Montana is tough. Your work becomes your life. But the one plus to all of it is a lack of final exams. So while everyone else in Missou... (more)

A pair of Montana Rail Link GP9s lead the Darby local south at Stevensville, Mont. on the morning of May 13, 2010. A handful of cars for Stevensville, Victor and Hamilton trail behind the power.

BNSF 4405 leads a westbound business train across Montana Rail Link's 10th Sub at Ravalli, Mont. on May 7, 2010.

St. Maries River Railroad SW1200 No. 502 heads back towards the St. Maries yard after switching the Stimson Lumber Mill. The track the engine is on was once part of the Milwaukee Road Pacific Exte... (more)

Two St. Maries River Railroad GP9s head west with 26 cars for the Union Pacific interchange at Plummer, Idaho on March 31, 2010.

Thirty years after the Milwaukee Road pulled up shop on "Lines West," trains still polish old MILW iron in St. Maries, Idaho. Seen here on March 31, 2010, SW1200 No. 502 shoves a cut of cars east ... (more)

A BNSF grain train hops on jointed rail on Montana Rail Link's 10th Sub near Evaro, Mont. on March 6, 2010. While in the valley tempatures linger in the 50s and signs of Spring loom, the Misson Mo... (more)

The last rays of light hit the nose of Guilford GP40 No. 332 as it runs up the old Maine Central 'Back Road' on the evening of Jan. 9, 2010.

The Day After: The first winter storm of 2010 to strike New England has finally lifted on Jan. 4, and the regions railroads countinue to clean up after the weekend long storm. Pan Am Railways sent... (more)