Touchdown! Yep - that's more than an illusion, that IS the plow scraping the rail head as the PAS BFPO emerges from the 'dip' and grade through the Bellows Falls tunnel with the Saturday slurry t... (more)

The 'dip' and grade through the Bellows Falls tunnel is evident if you look at the image closely and see the slurry cars on through the bore on Pan Am Southern's Saturday slurry train, BFPO-29. L... (more)

Pan Am Railways PAR 1 and PAR 2 pass through Reading, Ma while they lead the OCS into the Boston Engine Terminal for special trips out of North Station the next day.

End of an era. After serving the Boston & Maine and it's successors since 1957, the GP9 era on the B&M is coming to an end. Parked at the extreme western end of the former Boston & Maine, the 2 Pa... (more)

End of an era. After serving the Boston & Maine and it's successors since 1957, the GP9 era on the B&M is coming to an end. Parked at the extreme western end of the former Boston & Maine, the 2 Pa... (more)

Pan Am OCS heads back to Boston after going up to Portland, ME as they pass the former Boston & Maine Depot

Pan Am Railway's Office Car Special races a MBTA orange line as they both head toward Boston. The OCS is coming off the former Boston and Maine Western Route and soon will arrive at Boston Engine ... (more)

With confirmation of the Pan AM Office Car Special running into Boston and permission to use an access road to stage my vintage American LaFrance fire engine, I could not resist a photo op of the ... (more)

Pan Am's OCS makes a somewhat rare appearance in Boston, seen here at Tower A just outside North Station

Obligatory shot at the Willows. The BFPO passes CPF-WL and starts it's trek up the "Stony Brook Line" en route to Portland, ME. I hope to see the old SD40-2's around for awhile longer, a... (more)

MEC 345 hammers down through Kent, CT in a downpour

To my surprise after climbing up to get an angle on this shot, the canal that services the Falls Village Hydro-Electric plant on the Housatonic river is drained. Once every five-or-so years, First... (more)

Housatonic NX12 heads northbound along the Berkshire Line through Cornwall Bridge during a rain storm that left me completely drenched.

The only three C40-8's currently painted in Pan Am blue startle a flock of doves as they pass an ivy covered factory at CPF-WA in Lowell.

For the first time, the three C40-8's in Pan Am blue lead a train together. They are seen here hauling BFPO across Power Company Road in Tewksbury, MA.