About twenty minutes before the first scheduled train of the day leaves, I find this this job coming down the mountain in some nice light. I suspect that it was used to transport track workers up... (more)

A photographer takes a picture from the car's platform, while the engineer leans out the window of this green diesel to say something to a track worker. The train has just emerged from outside my... (more)

Hikers on Mt. Washington's Great Gulf Trail pause to watch the only steam powered train of the day head down the mountain. Weather on the mountain can be sporadic, as evidenced by this train passi... (more)

The Mount Washington Railway Company's venerable #2, "Ammonoosuc", enjoys a relatively gentle grade just moments after leaving Marshfield Station on a cool fall morning. I don't take a lot of ro... (more)

Sunset on the steam era at Mt. Washington. The early fall sun is just a few degrees above the horizon and the light is fading at Marshfield Station. Nearly all of the trains are now back ... (more)

Out With A Bang. In 2009 it became clear that the future for steam was bleak on Mount Washington, but Waumbek and the other two survivors were determined to go down in one last blaz... (more)

Seemingly determined to go out in style, steam on Mount Washington hung on through the end of the 2009 season, but whether or not any steam will run in 2010 remains unclear. With the three John D... (more)

Mt. Washington Railway Company's Locomotive #9 backs her train off the Skyline Siding after allowing an ascending train to pass. This is the highest of the two locations on the line where trains... (more)

It is not uncommon for the summit of Mt. Washington to be in the clouds even when the base is in sun. This rainy humid June day finds the clouds at the base. Undaunted, #9 starts its ascent the ... (more)

Steams last chance on Mt. Washington. Nigel Day had spent several years making improvements to locomotive #9 of Mt. Washington to make it more efficient. With Nigel at the throttle, this photo... (more)

In 2005 and 2006 the cog railway operated a ski train part way up Mt. Washington. Skiers would ride the cog up to Waumbek tank (about 1/3 the way up the mountain), then ski down beside the tracks... (more)

Fall color is visible in the valley below, but a fresh snowfall covers Mount Washington with several inches of wet snow. This railroad is spectacular, but the new diesel engines lack the magic of ... (more)

Looking a bit worse for wear outside the shop, Kancamagus sits with a sister as the vegetable oil-burning competition idles nearby.

The shadows are long and there's a definite chill in the air as we find MWRC #9 "Waumbek" taking the early morning steam special up Cold Spring Hill, enroute to the summit of Mt. Washington. An ... (more)

Cogscape - Cold Spring Hill. This shot may well depict one of the last times we'll ever see a steam engine on Mount Washington at 5PM. Sunday of Labor Day weekend is the last day of the o... (more)