Q427 snakes through the Berkshire Mountains in Becket, MA as it battles Washington Hill. The former Conrail SD40-2 Was a nice surprise leader on a line that's normally dominated by GEs.

Mass Central Railroads GP38 1750 descends the grade into Palmer, MA, returning home after its trip to Barre.

After being loaded with stone at Tilcons Reeds Gap quarry, Providence & Worcester train CT-1 led by three C40-8s, climb the grade towards Williams Road in Wallingford. The train is headed for Ceda... (more)

A quartet of Norfolk Southern GP38-2s, 5104, 5666, 5667, and 5609, lead the detouring NS 29E-21 through North Putney, VT on the New England Central RR’s Palmer Subdivision. The train is enroute... (more)

As part of the continuous detour trains through Vermont for Pan Am Railways due to the Hoosac Tunnel collapse, manifest train 16R is seen entering the yard at East Deerfield. ... (more)

Pan Am Southern autorack train 27W is seen headed East through Erving, MA. The NS Geeps were unusual to see on this trackage in the past, but due to line restrictions on the detour routes, these u... (more)

Pan Am Southern autorack train 27W is seen headed East through Erving, MA. The NS Geeps were unusual to see on this trackage in the past, but due to line restrictions on the detour routes, these u... (more)

Train NH-2 is seen alongside deKoven Drive in Middletown. The crew has already changed ends to the B39-8, which will shove back empty gondolas across the Connecticut River into Portland, at RED Te... (more)

In another historic move for the Vermont Rail System, the first Norfolk Southern loaded autorack train detoured via Canadian Pacific from Schenectady, NY to Whitehall, NY (as CP train 961), then w... (more)

Vermont Railway GP40-2L leads a hodgepodge of VTR and Pan Am locomotives downgrade having just crested the summit of the Green Mountains

Pan Am detour train 16R-26 is eastbound on the VRS Green Mountain Railroad Bellows Falls Subdivision with MEC B40-8 5967 leading GP40 352, B40-8 5966 and B40-8 5973 as it breaks the midnight silen... (more)

God Created All Men, But Samuel Colt Made All Men Equal

I'm sure some of you who are students of more than just railroad history have heard that old quote. So why share it her... (more)

Detoured train Pan Am train 16R passes a Boston & Maine searchlight signal as it makes its way south on the New England Central Railroad at Westminster, VT

Pan Am detour train 11R-24 is pulling toward Riverside Yard in Rockingham, Vermont, on the GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision. The train is on the causeway splitting the Connecticut River (NH) and We... (more)

Detoured train Pan Am train 16R snakes its way through Cavendish Gulf deep in the Green Moutnains of Vermont with a hodgepodge of Vermont Railway and Pan Am power with VTR GP38-3 207b leading the ... (more)