The ARR's annual Colony Christmas train has reached the end of the line in Palmer. After unloading nearly 400 passengers at the historic depot the train pulled a few car lengths north. This is j... (more)

The ARR's annual Colony Christmas train has arrived at its destination, the historic downtown Palmer depot which now serves as a community center and in which is set up the annual holiday market a... (more)

The ARR's annual Colony Christmas train is just minutes away from arriving at its destination, the historic downtown Palmer Depot. The train made the mile sprint from Anchorage to Matanuska in u... (more)

The one and only time each year this photo can be taken is when the annual Colony Christmas train traverses the otherwises outer mile of the ARR's Palmer Branch. After unloading the holiday revel... (more)

The ARR's annual Colony Christmas train creeps slowly north at 10 MPH on the ARR's Palmer Branch passing the Alaska State Fairgrounds. This annual train is the only time one can photograph a trai... (more)

An employee braves the -11 degree cold to open his window and offer a big friendly wave from the trailing unit on the ARR's annual Colony Christmas Train. The train is on the north leg of the wy... (more)

The temperature is -11 degrees as the ice fog hangs listlessly beneath the face of the mighty Chugach Mountains as the ARR's annual Colony Christmas train leaves the mainline at 150.5 for it's 6 m... (more)

It's nearly 5 PM and well past sunset on a gloomy, dreary, foggy, and just generally miserable Sunday in Alaska. A geep sits forlornly under the golden glow of sodium vapor lighting on the fuel r... (more)

Southbound Northeast Regional train #173 rolls in about 6 minutes off the advertised. The train is rolling on the ex NYNH&H shoreline pulling up to the splendidly restored depot built in 1875 by ... (more)

On a quiet Indian Summer afternoon a Guilford painted geep reposes at Rochingham Junction at the start of the Portsmouth Branch. Overhead is an ancient "Telltale" that has not served a purpose in... (more)

A true New England classic. The 1937 built Boston and Maine depot is a colonial revival style structure that features an octagonal cupola topped with a copper weathervane modeled after a B&M Paci... (more)

Amtrak 686 whips southbound on Pan Am Railway's freight mainline at CPF228 just south (railroad west) of the Wells Amtrak station. In the hole can be seen a tied down Pan Am freight led by a vene... (more)

The popular Green Mountain Flyer begins it's ten mile journey to Chester, VT. The train has just departed the station, crossed the NECR diamond and is now crossing the Bellows Falls Canal, one of... (more)

Looking east as westbound Q421 (the old BOSE in Conrail days) has locked itself into the clear in Palmer yard while it makes a pick up.

A venerable high-hood Geep threads slowly into the north end of the former B&M yard with a rail train.