While the city sleeps, recently acquired and repainted CEFX (CIT) SD9043MAC 105 makes a dramatic appearance rumbling through Rutland leading an ethanol train past the Howe Center at 03:59.

New England Centrals new parents colors lead NECR 323/324 trains for the first time tonight as 3809 leads 323 through Randolph at 02:18. Repainted in the roads St. Albans, VT paint booth, G&Ws col... (more)

Tuscan red and pinstripes passing XO Tower.......who would have thought it possible!? The NS Pennsy Heritage Unit leads Pan Am train 23K out of New England and into New York (and the lights) at 03... (more)

Normally no train passes by this elegant ex-Rutland station at night. It took an odd set of circumstances, an Iron Road Excursion train of private cars being re-routed up Vermont Rail System, to o... (more)

It's not everynight one gets to shoot a passing train from inside a brand new covered bridge! Even in Vermont. With snow falling at over an inch an hour outside, SD 90 MAC 125 leads a rare night m... (more)

Expecting a leased SD 90MAC leading, I get a surprise, VTR 308 wearing the VTR red & white scheme on the point of an ethanol train! From the land of various paint schemes, this is a favorite of mi... (more)

MM&A #1 rolls through the snowy landscape in Foster, Quebec at 01:39 behind rebuilt ex-SOO LINE SD 60 6240, leased to MM&A. Fresh snow.......newly painted red engine........flash lighting.......wh... (more)

The ex-Central Vermont Railways General Office Building presents a gorgeous backdrop as a pair of NECR GP 38s in their outstanding blue and yellow scheme lead three sister EMDs out of St. Albans w... (more)

A long anticipated rendevous takes place tonight with a BNSF powered empty grain train returning west passing XO Tower at night under the lights at 03:23.

I drove in here at dawn, my first visit, and my initial impressions were.......wow, look at that station! Then wow, look how far away the tracks are from it! LOL! The wide angles stay in the car, ... (more)

Deorated for Train Day back in May, the historic trackside hotel in Martinsburg could pass for being ready for July 4th in this view at 04:37 as not one but two AC6000CWs lead a light engine move ... (more)

Fitting right in amid their photogenic surroundings, a pair of CSXT GP 38-2s lead the way westward for the nocturnal Winchester, WV to Brunswick, MD turn on the original main line, now the Shenand... (more)

CSXT 7673 sweeps past the attractive station at Gaithersburg with a westbound autorack train at 02:49. The lighting freezes the train sharply at what I estimated to be a speed of around sixty mph ... (more)

Freshly repainted 4794 dwarfs everything around it leading another train of coal empties down the street at 00:34. Notice the new concrete panels over the track, and how well the tiny autos are p... (more)

CSXT 404 and its loaded coal train fill the street in this otherwordly scene from West Brownsville!