Late in the day on July 18, the famous Alco S1 Shop switcher, #5, was fired up for a trip over the entire former Saratoga & North Creek Railroad property. The move was made to 'rescue' the privat... (more)

With the Vermont Rail System Northern Subdivision out of service through the end of September for the construction of a tunnel at Middlebury, Vermont, VRS has begun detouring their daily Burlingto... (more)

Pan Am Railways launches a series of office car trips on July 12, as the sale of its rail operating arms, Springfield Terminal, Boston & Maine and Maine Central, is expected to be announced soon. ... (more)

The GRYR 200 Job is seen at Elliot, Mississippi on a late July evening as another storm develops and provides some nice lighting for the matched paint duo of GRYR SD40-2 8146 and GP38-2 3833. Lig... (more)

The matched set of Rock Island-painted GP38-2s, 4373 and 4310, are moving interchange traffic to the Canadian National at Swan Lake, as the sun makes it's exit and leaves the eastern sky with some... (more)

While the sun may have set long ago on the original Rock Island, Rob Riley’s Rock Island revival has is at the dawn of a new era for the Route Rock. With many thanks to the cooperation of the e... (more)

CN’s Jackson to Canton, MS local train L55371-05 departs Jackson from the Yazoo onto the McComb Subdivision as the head end passes the KCS connection/crossing ar Switch Tender. The train is led... (more)

Vermont Railway’s Hoosick Jct., NY to Rutland, VT train HJRD-23 is rolling through North Clarendon, VT as thunderstorms accumulate over the Green Mountains. The HJRD is led by VTR SD70M-2 431 a... (more)

The nightly NECR White River Jct., VT based local train 601 is on its way to interchange with the GMRC at Bellows Falls, VT, as it crosses the very calm Connecticut River on June 22. The short lo... (more)

End of the line...well sort of. CEFX GP20D 2002 was at Northern Maine Jct., Maine, on June 18, waybilled to Progress Rail for salvageable component removal and scrapping. The 2002 suffered a pri... (more)

Genesee & Wyoming's New England Central Railroad train 601-19, the White River to Bellows Falls, VT turn job that also works Crestwood LPG in Claremont, NH and a lumber distributor in Charlestown,... (more)

On June 18, Canadian Pacific Railway's CMQ US train F16-18 is ready to depart southbound on the Searsport Subdivision from the Northern Maine Junction Yard at Hermon, Maine. The train would servic... (more)

Extra tonnage to the Port of Albany on June 15, required more horsepower than the now allotted pair of GP20C-ECOs could handle. CP SD70ACU 7023 was added as the trail unit on the turn job from Sa... (more)

Extra tonnage to the Port of Albany on June 15, required more horsepower than the now allotted pair of GP20C-ECOs could handle. CP SD70ACU 7023 was added as the trail unit on the turn job from Sa... (more)

As most of their brethren being rounded up today and tomorrow for mass movement to St. Luc and an uncertain future, the opportunity to capture a pair of the CMQ SD40-2Fs on an overnight run on the... (more)