I have been doing this moving steam trains at night a few days over a year now. A big lesson learned here is trains are MUCH bigger in the dark! VRR No. 40 At Deep River CT. AKA "the North Pole."

Here we see the Valley Railroad's "New Haven" No. 3025 at the grade crossing north of the station of Deep River CT while pulling the 5PM section of the "North Pole Express." Back in the shiny cars... (more)

Steamtown's CN 3254 is backing up on the run around track at Moscow to hook up to it's train and return to Scranton. Word has it No. 3254 is going out of service so I made the trek to see her work... (more)

Steamtown's CN 3254 is backing up on the Hopper track to pick up it's trains for the trip to Moscow PA while surroundied by it's admirers.

In the Scranton roundhouse, AKA "the barn," Bruce and Kevin were prepping steam locomotive CN 2-8-2 No. 3254 for the days run after repairs the day before. They were using a fork lift to replace t... (more)

Here we are in the beautiful Pacific North West seeing a BNSF freight slogging through typical damp regional weather...not! Actually we are not far from my home in New York City looking at a CSX t... (more)

Metro North Poughkeepsie bound train passing fog-hatted Storm King Mountain on a damp but not rainy late winter day.

No. 3254 Left Eccentric Crank

Westbound NKP No. 765 blasts through Mattawana PA on a positioning move for the Norfolk Southern Employee Special.

Here you see Amtrak 156 making her way through Steamtown's 1860's era restoration shop on Shop Track 9. The train will continue through the shop, then the roundhouse and over the turntable to get ... (more)

Here you see Reading No. 2124 after her recent asbestos abatement project sporting a fresh paint job bathing in the warm setting Scranton sun. A few hours before I was part of the crew that placed... (more)

How about this for railfan spot? Pretty nice huh? And a fine neighborhood ice cream stand right nearby too. I want to go back soon and hear those 90MPH trains slinging themselves across this 106 y... (more)

On a beautiful spring evening, an Amtrak ACELA thunders over the Susquehanna River bridge southbound to Baltimore and Washington DC. I have been most fortunate to ride this train, perhaps these ve... (more)

In the beautiful working man's paradise that is Havre De Grace, where all the people are friendly mariners, tragedy can unfortunately occur. Here we see a memorial to a young man, the date and cau... (more)

Can you believe this beautiful structure was once derelict and was heading to demolition? In the 1960's, that was exactly the situation after the B&O stopped passenger service at it's gorgeous Mt.... (more)