The Pan Am Southern Bellows Falls, VT to Portland, ME limestone slurry train BFPO-16, heads east on the Vermont Rail System GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision with MEC C40-8s 7552 and 7500. Train is ... (more)

My first and last trip to the apparent Mecca of Massachusetts railfans. The location lived up to it's quantity of photographers, all jockeying for positions on the bridge. The power on the POED wa... (more)

Train POED id arriving East Deerfield yard with a rare (these days) set of painted power led by C40-8 #7552 ( the first GE to get painted into Pan Am colors) and SD40-2 #619 as they cross the Conn... (more)

On a gorgeous start to the Memorial Day Weekend, a short RJED smokes it up as it climbs the grade out of Hudson River Valley out of Rotterdam Junction. A few of the worn out GECX dash 8 widecabs... (more)

EDBF (East Deerfield, MA - Bellows Falls, VT) with Vermont Railway SD70M-2 431 in its consist, heads north at CPF-385 in Greenfield.

A former CSX B40-8 leads AD-1 towards North Adams, where it will work the Adams Branch. The train is seen alongside route 8A in Charlemont.

The B&M Lives!

Well...just barely. BO-1 is the last Boston based local freight for B&M successor Pan Am Railways. Here they can be seeing working Boston Sand and Gravel between F... (more)

Pan Am Railways' OCS train crosses the Hoosic River in Schaghticoke, NY as it heads east over the former B&M "West End."

BO-1 had just cleared Peabody Square with 15 empties in tow as they approach Wallis St. At least two times a week, this local makes the trip to Peabody to service Rousselot, one of the only remain... (more)

On the previous night, DOBO rolled over a spot of wide gauge causing the rear engine and three loaded sand cars to derail. During the following day, BO-1 was utilized to rerail the train in former... (more)

A well weathered Pan Am run through engine leads 2 NS units down the former D&H. 11R originates on the Pan Am at East Deerfield, MA and enters the NS at MP 485 in Schenectady, NY, continuing to Bi... (more)

ST unit slurry train BFPO (Bellows Falls, VT (VTR interchange) - Portland, ME) coasts through the Erving Middle triple, one of 2 places left on the former B&M where triple track is still in place.... (more)

A well weathered Pan Am run through engine leads 2 NS units down the former D&H. 11R originates on the Pan Am at East Deerfield, MA and enters the NS at MP 485 in Schenectady, NY, continuing to Bi... (more)

BO-1 exits the Salem Tunnel enroute to Boston with 5 empties from Rousselot in tow. This was one of the first times a newly acquired GE ventured into Commuter Rail territory!

On a dark and gloomy morning, BO-1 delivers two loaded boxcars to the last remaining Boston area customer: Boston Paper Board. The last known switch for this customer was back in 2012!