Running long hood first, LA-1 pulls a single hopper through Peabody Square. Here locomotive 503 is seen gleaming in the sun headed for Eastman Gelatin..

By A Nose. With MEC 606's factory-original snoot nose leading the way, NMED heads west through Shirley. The crew are making full use of the passenger train speeds this trackage is ... (more)

Crossing the tranquil waters of the Hudson with a medium train out of East Deerfield Yard. Crew held briefly north of CPF464 for the CP #938 to pass CPF467 in Mechanicville before getting the g... (more)

Early morning finds a short intermodel working up the hill at South Royalston, Massachusetts.

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

Local FI-1 out of Fitchburg MA trundles north on the Heywood industrial branch in Gardner MA to serve the only customer left on the branch, New England Wooden Ware. The 347 was really swaying sid... (more)

East Deerfield MA to Northern Maine Jct train EDNM rockets past the Seaman Paper transload siding in Otter River MA. EDNM is led by MEC 617, a recently aquired ex-Trona unit.

Eastbound EDNM powers thru Westminster, Massachusetts.

Westbound plow extra meets an eastbound AYWA at Newfields. The plow extra is using B&M double track plow 3742 , MEC 315, MEC 601, B&M double track plow 2743.

Deerfield local ED-2 catches the very last bit of sun as it heads south through South Deerfield MA at sunset.

Crossing over the state line out of the gloom into a very brief suckerhole of splash sunlight. This loaded coal has a rare set of solid SD70M power not commonly seen on D3. Happily they got a ... (more)

MEC 614, MEC 617

A Pan Am local out of the Ayer yard running long hood first pulls a load of tank cars headed for Veryfine in Littleton. The train will have to hold up and wait for commuter rail traffic before mak... (more)

A rare sight is a local freight into Salem. An even rarer sight is a set of two locomotives on a Salem local. LA-1 is tied down at the Bridge Street Yard and probably won't be moving anytime soon ... (more)