Arizona & Eastern B40-8 screams out of Clifton Tunnel #2 as it assaults the 2.12% grade out of the San Francisco River Canyon. This will be the second A&E Hill Turn out of Clifton. The Freeport ... (more)

Having cleared the 10mph speed restriction at West River, the engineer of train 16R has all 4 B40-8s roaring, as they scoot across the frozen Connecticut River in the causeways just south of Bratt... (more)

A detour 11R with five matched B40-8s coasts alongside Sunderland Road as the sun dips ever lower towards dusk on a cold Sunday afternoon. The freight has been recently recrewed at Manchester for ... (more)

As the detours approach their sunset days on the Vermont Railroad, a gaggle of New York plate weekend fans pace a northbound 16R freight alongside Dunham Road as engineer Hal T Raven watched the s... (more)

On a beautifully clear but cold Sunday afternoon an 11R detour train heads south towards Danby on the B&R Branch out of Rutland for interchange at Hoosick Junction with five B40-8s.

The first of three daylight trains on the VRS GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision, the detouring ST (PAS) RJED and operating as VRS detour 1 or 16R-A, is seen passing the Bartonsville Covered Bridge wi... (more)

A new set of power was formed for the Pan Am detour trains over Vermont Rail System on March 17, when four NS GP38-2s joined the mix with the Pan Am and VRS power to handle these moves. On March ... (more)

Pan Am Railways train 11R (E. Deerfield, MA-Mechanicville, NY) is seen taking the scenic route through Vermont due to a partial collapse of the Hoosac Tunnel in Florida, MA. MEC 5967 is seen leadi... (more)

Pan Am 5967 pulling the 11R, crosses over the 4-lane grade-crossing on US Route 7 while on a detour through Vermont due the closure/repair of the Hoosac Tunnel.

A pair of Albany and Eastern GE B40-8s switch Weyerhaeuser’s Santiam Lumber mill south of Lebanon, Oregon, on the AERC’s Sweet Home branch on September 26, 2016. The train is powered by two GE... (more)

An Albany and Eastern train switches Weyerhaeuser’s Santiam Lumber mill south of Lebanon, Oregon, on the AERC’s Sweet Home branch on September 26, 2016. The train is powered by two GE B40-8sâ€... (more)

Delaware & Hudson train PYRP rounds the curve at Treichlers, Pennsylvania during its trip from Potomac Yard to Rouses Point, New York. The Susquehanna is the court-appointed operator of the D&H, ... (more)

A unique walk in view at Mount Tabor as the VTR/Pan Am detour 11R approaches Danby ahead out of Wallingford on a cold Sunday afternoon.

What is lost in aesthetics is gained in interest as the March 1, PAS 11R-01 detour train rolls past the Bartonsville, VT covered bridge with a quintet of PAS/MEC B40-8s and the first double stack ... (more)