The Pan Am Geometry FRA Train extra crosses into Vermont.

STORM FRONT. The Pan Am OCS is seen curving east just ahead of a vicious early October storm front that would bring extensive property damage and power outages to the region of western Massachuset... (more)

On August 7, Pan Am Railways operated an office car special from Ayer, Massachusetts, to Mechanicville, New York, with Norfolk Southern officials inspecting the jointly-owned portion of Pan Am Sou... (more)

Having left East Deerfield Yard within the past few hours, a rare Saturday EDRJ is seen passing through North Pownal, VT, almost at the New York state border. A thick blanket of fog can be seen c... (more)

Amtrak operated its annual Autumn Express train this year from Albany, New York to East Deerfield, Massachusetts and return with Amtrak P42DC 145 and P40DC 822 leading an 11-car train over trackag... (more)

Two years ago in mid November, I was treated to a perfect day of shooting the B&M west end. The first part of my journey was chasing an MOED (who had stopped in Hoosick Junction and picked up an o... (more)

The sound of throbbing EMD, turbocharged 645 engines fills up the Hoosic River Valley as AD-2 blows past.

After we left the Pan Am freight in Charlemont, Mass. We started heading back home, and soon enough in North Pownal we ran into NS train 22K. We were able to beat them to the Pownal curve to get t... (more)

This short NS 22K out of Mechanicville Yard powered by a lone dusty M-2 was one of many visual highlights on a memorable trip back to my old haunt in the "Land that Time Forgot". Basically the p... (more)

Pan Am Railways operated a deadhead Office Car Special (OCS) trip on August 19, running the train from East Deerfield, Massachusetts, to Hoosick Junction, New York, where it was turned and returne... (more)

A BNSF warbonnet, H2, swoosh combo leads a buffer and 92 loads of Bakken Oil across the southwest corner of the Green Mountain State at the Rt. 346 crossing on their way to the Irving Refinery in ... (more)

The Nickel Plate Road heritage unit rolls across the southwest corner of the Green Mountain State with 88 cars of coal for Bow, NH. This represents the first NS heritage unit to visit New England ... (more)

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)

On a perfectly frigid New England day the hottest train on the line curls east a around the "famous" Pownal Curve along the icy Hoosic River on the former Boston & Maine mainline now operated by t... (more)

On a perfectly frigid New England day a big eastbound manifest rounds the "famous" Pownal Curve along the Hoosic River on the former Boston & Maine mainline now operated by the Pan Am Southern. D... (more)