This was once one of the most common rail sights across the country, a plain-vanilla GP7 or GP9 heading up a local freight trailed by a caboose. Not any more! Boston & Maine GP7 eased local freigh... (more)

A pair of maroon and yellow GP7s accelerate Boston & Maine train JS-2 (White River Jct., VT, to Springfield, MA) south out of Claremont Junction, NH, on the Connecticut River Line. The train has j... (more)

In the mid-1960s, the Boston & Maine's Connecticut River Line was dominated by GP7s, RS-3s, and the railroad's remaining F-units. Train SJ-1 (Springfield, MA, to White River Junction, VT) passed t... (more)

During the summer and fall of 1968, the Boston & Maine ran a conveyor belt of gravel trains in the form of three trips a day carrying fill for a big highway project from a pit at Bow, NH, to a con... (more)

A trio of maroon and yellow Alco RS-3s leads Boston & Maine train JS-2 (White River Jct., VT, to Springfield, MA) into the big yard at East Deerfield, MA, on a hazy spring morning in the Connectic... (more)

The fall harvest is in and the field has been cleared as Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) rolls south through Cornish, NH, on the Connecticut River Line. The... (more)

New England Central Railroad SD40-2 3405 leads SD40M-2s 3474 and 3475 with southbound freight 324-25 as the train crosses the Green Mountain Railroad Bellows Falls Subdivision diamond in Bellows F... (more)

New England Central Railroad SD40-2 3405 leads SD40M-2s 3474 and 3475 with southbound freight 324-25 past the Bellows Falls depot and over the Green Mountain Railroad Bellows Falls Subdivision.

New England Central Railroad SD40M-2s 3474 and 3475 lead northbound train 323-26 past the Bellows Falls depot and over the Green Mountain Railroad Bellows Falls Subdivision. A thunderstorm was mo... (more)

Southbound New England Central Railroad train 324-13 is crossing from Walpole, New Hampshire (right) into Bellows Falls, Vermont, with Providence & Worcester SD70M-2 4302 leading Connecticut South... (more)

Boston & Maine F7 4265 and an RS-3 mate lead northbound train SJ-1 (Springfield, MA, to White River Jct., VT) off the Connecticut River Line connection and into the East Deerfield, MA, yard as a ... (more)

For the second time in a month, Providence & Worcester SD70M-2 #4301 leads a loaded ethanol train off the Vermont Rail System onto the New England Central Railroad's Palmer Subdivision and through... (more)

Minuteman Without a Top Coat

Boston & Maine SW8 803 rolled out of LaGrange in 1953 wearing B&M’s maroon and gold “Minuteman” scheme. Service in the New England environment fo... (more)

In a rare occurrence of Pan Am's GP9s leading a road freight, GP9 52, decorated in Maine Central heritage paint, leads NMWA (Northern Maine Junction - Waterville) over the Kennebec River, from Ben... (more)

The Delaware & Hudson had several run-through trains with the Lehigh Valley. One of those trains, symbol MA-2 (Mechanicsville – Allentown) is seen here approaching the village of Siegfried, just... (more)