The engineer is dropping sand on icy rails as Boston & Maine GP38-2 206 and its mates lift train POME (Portland, ME, to Mechanicville, NY) up the Deerfield valley at Shelburne Falls, MA.

Boarding passengers await as VIA's afternoon nonstop TurboTrain run between Montreal and Toronto slows for the pickup at suburban Dorval, Quebec. From here the speedy train would make no further p... (more)

An evening rush hour commuter train on Canadian Pacific's Lakeshore route out of Montreal pulls into the classic station at Dorval, Quebec, behind an FP7/RS18 duo. Forty years later, the classic t... (more)

Blue diesels make blue smoke as Boston & Maine train EDSP (East Deerfield to Springfield, MA) gets underway out of the East Deerfield yard behind a GP18/GP9 duo.

In the early 1980s, Boston & Maine train WA-1 provided freight service on Metro North's Waterbury branch between Waterbury and Derby, CT. GP9 1707 was in charge this day as WA-1 headed north acros... (more)

A former Penn Central SD40 and a Reading U30C team up on a Conrail freight approaching Nassau Tower in Princeton Jct., NJ, on a bleak October day.

Six months into Conrail, an unpatched Penn Central (ex-NH) Alco RS-11, a couple boxcars, and a caboose make up a compact local freight preparing to depart Hopewell Jct., NY, on the former NH Maybr... (more)

MBTA F40PH 1011 pauses at Lincoln, MA, while working a Fitchburg-Boston local in a January snowstorm.

The passengers waiting in the snow will soon welcome the warmth inside the cars as an MBTA Fitchburg-Boston local pulls into the station at Lincoln, MA. An F40PH is pushing on the rear of the shor... (more)

With a puff of smoke, MBTA GP9 7539 accelerates its train out of Boston's South Station at rush hour. Both the Geep and the coaches trailing it are of New Haven heritage. The locomotive would soon... (more)

The quiet of a long summer evening in Hoocksett, NH, is momentarily disturbed by the evening MBTA train between Boston and Concord, NH, over the Boston & Maine. This service ran under a one-year g... (more)

The conductor flags a grade crossing as Moshassuck Valley 65-Tonner 9 switches cars at the tiny line's Saylesville, RI terminal. The 1.4-mile MV was absorbed into the Providence & Worcester in 198... (more)

Claremont & Concord 44-Tonner 31 was working hard as it pulled a loaded boxcar up one of the hills in the street-running trackage in Claremont, NH, that was once part of the Claremont Electric Rai... (more)

Two of the Branford Steam Railroad's three GE 44-Tonners rest on a weekend at the New Haven Trap Rock quarry in North Branford, CT. This 6.2-mile quarry railroad is still very active, now owned by... (more)

One of Amtrak's United Aircraft Turbotrains poses at Washington Union Station while working what had to be its strangest assignment, the Washington-Parkersburg (WV) Potomac Special over the B&O. T... (more)