A late afternoon WOGR (Worcester to Gardner turn job) is north on the Providence & Worcester's Gardner Branch past the station sign for Holden, MA.

Backwards-running Providence & Worcester GP38-2 2008 and a GE mate lead the daily Worcester-Gardner job north on a summer day. Based on my 35-year-old notes I think the location is somewhere near ... (more)

P&W ethanol train GRPR heads south through Holden MA, passing Maple Spring Pond.

WOGR returns from Gardner at dusk after getting held up by the PanAm.

Northbound road train to the PanAm at Gardner rolls north along Maple Spring Pond in the early afternoon.

For my first train of February, I wanted to catch something close to home, and a 66N with an NS SD60e leader was just the thing. The snow picked up shortly before the train came, making for a wint... (more)

Providence & Worcester train GRWO rolls south through Holden MA with a pair of B39s and 40 cars on a spectacular January afternoon

Southbound GRWO (Gardner/Worcester) skirts Maple Spring Pond.

P&W ethanol extra GRPR with run through foreign power crawls into the elevated curve just south of the Holden interlocking (really just a MOW switch) with swirling snow all around