My one keeper from a morning chase of bad choices. After swapping conductors, loaded grain train RJAY rumbles east from a dead stop st CPF 464 as it approaches Route 67. The 71 car train has fou... (more)

The first unit repainted of only 3 Pan Am C-40's repainted in the corporate colors so far leads the RJED (CSX-Rotterdam Jct, NY to East Deerfield, MA). The 83 car freight is climbing out of the Hu... (more)

A super rare sight for the Pan Am west end launches east after some air issues with one of the rent a wreck GECX trailers. Only a very few of these handsome "top hat' Dash 9s remain active ... (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)

MEC 7595 leads seven fellow dash 8s up the grade on a Sunday extra on a muggy afternoon. It's actually pretty uncommon to see a daylight weekend job out of Rotterdam Junction especially on a Sund... (more)

A 1949 B&M Russell single track plow (BM 3738), a rebuilt SD45 and an original B&M searchlight signal create a nice scene on the former Boston & Maine in the aftermath of Upstate NY's March 14th b... (more)

A group of railfans (on the left) have just recorded the Savannah & Atlanta heritage unit as it leads the Chicago to Ayer, MA intermodal up the hill out of the Hudson Valley on the former Boston &... (more)

Shades of the Southern on the old B&M. Will meet a EDRJ at Hoosick Junction.

Original NS heritage makes the climb out of the Hudson Valley as it approaches the Rt 67 crossing on its way east to Ayer, Ma. NS 8114 is passing an increasingly rare searchlight signal.

After waiting for its westbound counter part 23k to clear the main, at 5 pm NS stack train 22K was underway. the vibrant BNSF trio seen here accelerating out of Mechanicville, in Hemstreet Park,NY... (more)

A former Boston & Maine 250 ton crane sits idle on the siding in Hemstreet Park. The wreck train was brought out in the wake of a derailment that occurred on February 7, 2013, on the Rotterdam Bra... (more)

The hot intermodal and the wreck train make an odd couple as they sit snow covered the morning after the big blizzard that clobbered New England. They would not move the rest of the day as crew... (more)

The crew of RJED prepares to reverse their train into the siding alongside Route 67 after departing out of Rotterdam Junction with a tiny weekend freight.

A set of SD70ACe's roll Mohawk Yard to Ayer, MA racks and intermodal up the hill out of the Hudson Valley with little effort. I believe this is the first time the SD70ACe units have run on PAS. Tr... (more)

With BNSF power leading, a loaded grain train (bound for Ayer, MA) passes a parked loaded coal train (bound for Bow, NH) at Hemstreet Park in Schaghticoke, NY.