DITCHED, part 2: ATTACHING CABLES. On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, a southbound New England Southern light engine struck a patch of ice and toppled a full 130 degrees off the trac... (more)

DITCHED, part 3: EXTRACTION. On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, a southbound New England Southern light engine struck a patch of ice and toppled a full 130 degrees off the tracks and... (more)

DITCHED, part 1: THE AFTERMATH. On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, a southbound New England Southern light engine struck a patch of ice and toppled a full 130 degrees off the tracks ... (more)

MA&N #805 burbles in a tone that only an Alco can produce as it dashes through the heavy lake effect snow bands that are typical of Oneida Co., New York in winter. The unit is on its way to Lyons... (more)

A Conrail SD50 charges against the sunset light and kicks up plenty of dust as she flies by. It's late September and the extremely low light accentuates the orange leaves on nearby trees and Suma... (more)

The FJ&G's first locomotive, "The Pioneer," later named the "David A. Wells" and eventually numbered as the road's first No. 1, pulls one boxcar and a baggage car (probably carrying mail) through ... (more)

Back in the old days, Schenectady Chemicals had its own fleet of tank cars. Here, B&M 339 switches one such car outside the Schenectady Chemicals plant in Rotterdam Jct., N.Y., on the Boston & Ma... (more)

A few miles from the southern end of its run, the VTR B&R job skirts the marsh on the north side of North Bennington. After switching the connection with Pan Am Railways, the crew will head back n... (more)

The B&R job plods along at a spot along Otter Creek, just south of Danby, on its way to North Bennington. I believe the mountain in the distance is either Green Mountain or the shoulder of Mt. Ta... (more)

Fresh snow, blue skies, and clean Alcos... #605 grabs a car from Carovail Fertilizer before heading south for Eagle Bridge. Check out that Norfolk & Western covered hopper! Scanned from Fujic... (more)

HOME FOR CHRISTMAS. With Christmas just two days away, Clarendon & Pittsford 204 rolls through East Dorset, Vt., in light snow. Apparently the people of East Dorset mailed their gi... (more)

Several miles southeast of Loomis, a tiny crossroads in northeastern Wisconsin, we find E&LS Baldwin #202 slowly burbling eastward at 5 m.p.h. towards Marinette, Wis., and Menominee, Mich. This e... (more)

NYS&W's OnTrack service was a favorite way for Syracuse University students to get from campus to the popular Carousel Center Mall in the late 1990s and early 2000s. OnTrack operated three Budd R... (more)

Grandma Moses Was Here. Famous folk artist Grandma Moses lived a stone's throw away from the station at Eagle Bridge. Let your mind reach back through the veil of time; let it co... (more)

History Happened Here. This photographer's favorite Alco RS-3 hauls revenue freight past the old Delaware & Hudson depot in Cambridge on a cold Upstate New York winter day. Check ou... (more)