CSO-1 hammers south through Wallingford, past the distinctive Trackside Pizza Restaurant. A 1920s-era SEPTA subway car serves as the dining room for the restaurant, which will get a nicely-upgrade... (more)

With the construction embargoes on Amtrak's Springfield Line, Hartford Yard can be a flurry of activity in the early afternoon when the line re-opens for several hours each weekday. CSO-4 with its... (more)

The original Norfolk Southern heritage unit heads up this manifest going into Enola Yard.

The Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus Blue Unit train arrives in Hartford from Providence.

Weekend layover of T trainsets at the Worcester facility.

Boston's Beacon Park Yard is now officially history; Worcester Yard is one of the beneficiaries with a $100 million expansion, which at 79 acres is pretty close to what Beacon Park Yard was. Track... (more)

Another new passenger locomotive awaits completion at Brookville Equipment.

Gillette has a nice park displaying several pieces of preserved mining equipment; this U30C is included with the display.

Out with the old, in with the new. Conn DOT's venerable M2 fleet (example 8717 is seen on the right) is gradually being replaced by these new M8 cars.

Shore Line East service from Old Saybrook slows for the approach to New Haven Union Station.

Almost seems like old times, if you discount the fact that there is now a huge casino occupying much of the former Bethlehem Steel mill in the background. I didn't have time to check out the casin... (more)

Former Clinchfield 3616 (an SD45-2 back in those days) leads this consist switching the East Deerfield Yard.

The long-awaited M8 railcars have entered limited service between New Haven, Stamford and GCT; this set is seen at Port Chester with a Stamford train during the second week of revenue service. Con... (more)

Since I moved to Connecticut in 1995, there have only been two types of Conrail/CSX power regularly assigned to Cedar Hill Yard. Conrail used B23-7s almost exclusively, then when CSX succeeded th... (more)

The Toyota Prius of locomotives. According to a crewmember with whom I spoke, this was the first day of use for this new Genset at West Springfield. Definitely something different, both in sound a... (more)