The Conway Scenic Railroad Mountaineer is seen climbing Crawford Notch, approaching the Gateway, and the end of the climb. The Boston & Maine F7A 4268 was recently restored at the Conway shops and... (more)

An outbound commuter rail train prepares to depart South Station. On the neighboring track an Amtrak Acela Regional is set to board for Washington DC.

An Eastbound tank train is seen crossing Lake Pend Oreille in Sandpoint, Idaho.

CSX train Q212 is seen on the causeway at Iona Island in Stony Point, New York. Iona Island is home to a bird sanctuary, but the brick facility in the background served as a naval ammunition depot... (more)

One of the Amtrak "Swedish Meatballs" undergoes repairs at the New Haven facility.

A Providence & Worcester ethanol train bound for the Port of Providence is seen passing the abandoned Pawtucket-Central Falls station. The structure was built in 1915 and served the New York, New ... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 1309 is an H-6 "Mallet" with a wheel configuration of 2-6-6-2. It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949 to haul coal from the fields in West Virginia. It only served ... (more)

The first morning scheduled Valley Train, Number 10 on the time table departs North Conway at 10:30. Here Train #10 is seen crossing the famous Moat Brook Trestle at MP136 (from Boston) on the old... (more)

An Eastbound coal drag passes under the soon to be extinct signals at Jamestown Road.

Delaware Lackawanna PO-75 is seen emerging from Nay Aug Tunnel. The train is bound for Scranton with empties from Cresco and Pocono Summit.

A break from the posts from my recent trip to California, the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited is seen passing some of the last New York Central searchlight signals on the Boston Line at C... (more)

The afternoon "Downeaster" arrives in Boston with the heritage cab control car (painted to look like an F40 locomotive in Phase III paint).

Green Mountain's classic Alco RS-1, originally a Rutland locomotive brings a dead head Providence & Worcester GE into White River Junction for the annual "Glory Days of Railroading" The ... (more)

One of the most successful stories in modern rail preservation is that of the East Broad Top in Rockhill Furnace, PA. The coal and common carrier railroad was saved from scrap in 1956 by Nick Kova... (more)

In the early 1960s, The Rio Grande hired Morrison-Knudsen to build a branchline from Brendel, Utah to a potash mine South of Moab. The 35.77-mile line was completed in 1963. The scenery on the lin... (more)