The original Boston & Maine Troy Branch alignment can be imagined by the placement of the tower, with the freight mainline still in place and hosting today's Pan Am Southern East Deerfield. MA to ... (more)

This colorful dogs breakfast EMD consist was a nice bonus surprise while waiting for the Strate's Carnival train to leave Mechanicville Yard on a beautiful crisp morning. The very unusual and rar... (more)

Pan Am's Executive F's, PAR 1 and PAR 2, roll an OCS EB on the "West End" of the former B&M Fitchburg Main at the sweeping curve in Johnsonville, just west of the former junction with the Troy Bra... (more)

Pan Am's Executive F's, PAR 1 and PAR 2, roll an OCS EB on the "West End" of the former B&M Fitchburg Main. These units are former CN, VIA and Conway Scenic.

The day started off very dreary but when I made it to Selkirk the sun showed it's bright face through the clouds and the rest of the day went from there. I chased 22k from Mechanicville, NY to Wil... (more)

Heritage meets history at Johnsonville, New York as the Norfolk Southern Nickel Plate Heritage ES44AC 8100 passes the former Boston & Maine Johnsonville Tower. The tower once stood proud to protec... (more)

ST Local RJ-1 heads west through Johnsonville, NY alongside New York Route 67 on its return trip from interchanging with the Batten Kill Railroad at Eagle Bridge and the Vermont Railway at North B... (more)

On August 22, 2011, Pan Am Railways and Norfolk Southern combined their business trains at Ayer, MA and ran west to Mechanicville, NY so that the railroads' executives could view the progress of t... (more)

NS F9A 4270 leads F9B 4276 roll eastbound past the old Boston & Maine JV Tower at Johnsonville enroute to Ayer, MA.

ST Local RJ-1 heads west past old JV Tower at Johnsonville, NY on its return trip from interchanging with the Vermont Railway at North Bennington, VT and the Batten Kill Railroad at Eagle Bridge, ... (more)

Horses Of Different Colors. Bound for suburban Boston, MOAY rolls east past the decaying hulk of Johnsonville Tower, where the passenger main to Troy Union Station once diverged from the f... (more)

ST Train MOAY heads east through Johnsonville, NY. This is the second MOAY to run on a new daylight schedule with runthrough NS power and autoracks.

At 12:45 PM, ST Train EDMO heads west through Johnsonville, NY.

The clouds have broken away and the six axle dinosaurs are roaming again on D4!

A couple of friends and I spent a least fifteen minutes pruning garbage and foreground 'clutter' for this shot of three of the last dinosaur six axles on a recrewed EDMO.