Sunshine after monsoon shower

Nature was fresh after a heavy shower as ERODE shed WDM-3D powers Kottayam bound passenger train through Kazhakootam

A westbound Delaware Lackawanna freight passes the power station for the Rock-Tenn paper mill in Delaware Water Gap, Pa.

A pair of Apache Railway units notch up to continue their trip back to Snowflake, Arizona after dropping off a car at the "Pig Farm" between Holbrook and Snowflake

This is no April Fool's joke. A quartet of former Erie-Lackawanna Alco C425s arrived at BN's Interbay facilities en route from the newly formed Conrail to new owner BC Rail. BN handled the units w... (more)

GBW #320 switches the boat train in Kewaunee while the ferry Arthur Atkinson awaits an uncertain fate. Sadly, this area is all condos now.

The final return trip from Phoenicia to Mt. Tremper slowly rolls along Rt. 28. In a matter of minutes it will arrive at the station and operations over the line will cease.

Railfans watch as the final train to Phoenicia pulls into the station. After a short layover, passengers will return to Mt. Tremper.

The final train on the Mt. Tremper section of the Catskill Mt. Railroad makes it's way along Esopus Creek.

Arriving at the 1854 South Dayton, NY depot, the first train of the Memorial Day weekend excursions glides to a stop for its short layover. The locomotives will run around before taking the three... (more)

Looking a bit worse for wear, the New York & Lake Erie's pair of MLW FPA cab units gets out of town with a Memorial Day weekend excursion to South Dayton.

Looking more like a Ken Patterson diorama than an actual locomotive, the world's only extant MLW-built FPA-2 (actually a FPA-2u thanks to a Canadian National rebuild) crosses Dole St. on its way t... (more)

Battling the steep grades of the former Erie, the only operating FPA's east of Ohio dig in and prepare to duck under the former grade of the original Erie main line.

One of the last Catskill Mountain Railroad trains between Mount Tremper and Phoenicia passes milepost 26 (from Kingston, N.Y.) on the last day of operations.