A northbound Delaware & Hudson Penn Division detour train rolls west along Conrail’s Southern Tier Line in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania.

“Bravo·Foxtrot·Oscar·Alpha”
Running long hood forward, MEC SD39 693 is leading D&H BFOA eastbound, near the east end of Richmondville siding, in the mid-after... (more)

Three-year-old Maine Central GP38 261 posed at Rigby Yard in South Portland, ME, on a spring morning.

MEC GP38 254 (251-263); with GP7 567 (561-593).

Maine Central 238 is one of several U25B's purchased from Rock Island when the Rock ceased operations. A Mike Bledsoe photo.

Maine Central yard, Bangor, Maine in August 1985. MEC U18B 402 with GP38 258.

Maine Central yard, Bangor, Maine in August 1987. MEC U23B 286 (ex-D&H 2307)

View from the Maine Central engine house turntable, MEC's U23B 229 and GP7 567 at Bangor, Maine on July 24, 1983.

North Adams-based local ST Train AD-1 trundles south on the Adams Industrial Track past Southview Cemetery in North Adams, Massachusetts on its way to Adams to serve Specialty Minerals and Holland... (more)

An abandoned mill building looms over the tracks at Gardner, MA, as Maine Central GP38 260 leads a Boston & Maine GP38-2 and a B&M GP40-2 on the point of train BASE, a Bangor, ME, to Rotterdam Jun... (more)

The fall color is gone from the western Massachusetts hills and the November chill has set in as Maine Central U25B 226 and its EMD partners grind upgrade near Millers Falls, MA, with Boston & Mai... (more)

The pine tree on the nose of U23B 280 marks it as a Maine Central engine, but its colors are those of its original owner, the Delaware & Hudson. MEC 280, one of 15 U23B's transferred in 1983 from ... (more)

On a warm fall day shortly after the Boston & Maine and Maine Central began pooling road diesels, B&M train POME (Portland, ME, to Mechanicville, NY) rolls west through Shirley, MA, behind two MEC... (more)

Three Maine Central U-Boats, all acquired secondhand, will be working uphill as they depart Gardner, MA, with Boston & Maine train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC). Lead unit ... (more)

Three Roads, Three Builders

During the colorful Susquehanna era in Binghamton, New York, diverse gatherings of paint schemes and locomotive models were commonplace, but different... (more)