DITCHED, part 4: READY TO LIFT. On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, a southbound New England Southern light engine struck a patch of ice and toppled a full 130 degrees off the tracks ... (more)

FIRST SHOTS OF AN SD30C-ECO IN ACTION — Here's a tight shot of Canadian Pacific No. 5010. The unit, less the a month old, is leading a westbound... (more)

THERE IS A LITTLE CAESAR'S IN ROME. We're in Rome, New York, however, and despite what the billboard says, this Alco is not delivering five-dollar pizzas.

After a lengthy and fierce debate, the State of New York decided that this stretch of railroad should be scrapped and turned into a rail trail. Indeed, several years after this photo was taken, s... (more)

Greenwich Junction was once the meeting point between the Greenwich & Johnsonville, a shortline that became part of the Delaware & Hudson, and the D&H's own Washington Branch. The little shed to ... (more)

This is the beautifully-restored interior of the Rome, New York passenger station. A few years prior to this photo, the inside of the building was dingy, and a small river of slime was running th... (more)

The FJ&G's first locomotive, "The Pioneer," later named the "David A. Wells" and eventually numbered as the road's first No. 1, pulls one boxcar and a baggage car (probably carrying mail) through ... (more)

MAIDEN RUNS: New Power in the Adirondacks. This former Arizona Eastern E8 is now working passenger trains on the new Saratoga & North Creek Railway. Aug. 18th marked its first day... (more)

The MA&N's Utica crew returns to the Mohawk Valley after delivering a rare boxcar to Lyons Falls. The covered hoppers behind the locomotive are from Boonville. Service to the northern end of thi... (more)

History Happened Here. This photographer's favorite Alco RS-3 hauls revenue freight past the old Delaware & Hudson depot in Cambridge on a cold Upstate New York winter day. Check ou... (more)

Several miles southeast of Loomis, a tiny crossroads in northeastern Wisconsin, we find E&LS Baldwin #202 slowly burbling eastward at 5 m.p.h. towards Marinette, Wis., and Menominee, Mich. This e... (more)

MA&N #805 burbles in a tone that only an Alco can produce as it dashes through the heavy lake effect snow bands that are typical of Oneida Co., New York in winter. The unit is on its way to Lyons... (more)

The Reading Lives! These unique "Coal Tubes," once operated by the Glove City Coal Co., still stand near the roadbed of the former Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad. The F... (more)

NOW ON DISPLAY at the primary entrance to the Mount Washington Cog Railway is steam locomotive no. 10. The locomotive was built by the railway's own shop in 1972 and has been cosmetically ... (more)

Ghostly Remains, Part 2. Another shot of the abandoned Gerrish Depot station in Boscawen, New Hampshire. For caption information, clic... (more)