This F3A/F7B/RS-3 lashup has arrived on Train 8904 (CP 904) from Newport, VT.

This typical lashup of B&M power for freights on the Conn River Line shortly will head across the Connecticut River bridge to the White River Junction, VT yard and take a train south to Springfiel... (more)

CP Train 904 arrives at Wells River where CP track ends. It will continue on to White River Jct. on the B&M as Train 8904. B&M and CP had run through crew and power agreements stemming from the ... (more)

This is somewhere between Wells River and White River Jct. along the Connecticut River but my notes are missing. CP Train 904 became B&M Train 8904 when it reached Wells River where CP track ende... (more)

The B&M engine facility for its White River Jct. VT yard was across the Connecticut River in West Lebanon, NH. On the B&M is was known as Westboro.

BAR units were regulars on the CPR. From the mid-1960's to the early-1970's CP was notoriously power short and leased just about anything that would move, including from the BAR, B&M, B&LE, CGW, D... (more)

PRR E-44's and B&O F-units await assignments at RF&P's "Pot Yard". This was the major freight yard in the Washington D.C. area.

The objective was to see my first BL-2 and the Bangor and Aroostook did not disappoint. There were three at Northern Maine Junction, including 53 which appears to have just come out of the paint ... (more)

The BL-2 cannot be confused with any other EMD locomotive. EMD put the F-3 machinery in this semi-streamlined carbody to make its first roadswitcher. One BL-1 and 58 BL-2's were built in 1948 an... (more)

The last northbound run of "The Laurentian" climbs the grade from CPR"s Adirondack Junction to Seaway Tower and the twin lift bridges over the St. Lawrence Seaway. The operator's j... (more)

I am five miles east of Julesburg where the U.P. line from North Platte spilts to head to Denver or Cheyenne. Eastern Colorado may look flat but the 20,400 H.P. on the head end of this westbound ... (more)