This "Conrail Quality" was by far, the catch of the day...

This is Connecticut Southern's "new" locomotive...

A lady conductor assists in turning the Vermonter on the wye at Springfield...

The westbound Lakeshore Limited pulls into Springfield...

#1729 drags a few cars back to its yard before calling it a day...

NECR picks up a long cut of cars just dropped by Q422 a few hours earlier...notice the newly acquired and painted NECR 3840...

Q422 passes over one of the more junky looking concrete bridges on the Boston Line...this fifth of nine Quaboag River crossings at QB 75.06...

Two odd locomotives, a derated SD50 (now with 3000HP) and a B23 Super 7 brace a tie train dropping some new ones off (always wondered how they did it)...

A Metro-North heads north amongst some different river traffic...

I think that this is as peak as it is going to get...Q437 rushes to Palmer to let the Lake Shore pass it out...

The same-old, same-old for the Vermonter as local bill-boards already gear-up for the winter ahead...

I was surprised to see one of my favorite CSX locomotives on the point...one of CSX's 20 ACes...

The sun poked around the clouds just in time, making for a dramatic contrast between the light and dark areas...

This train only contained 38 cars of trash for such a powerful consist...

This shot from Rt 218 is nearly 400ft over the Hudson River. This could easily be confused with a highly detailed HO layout...