Fresh snow, blue skies, and clean Alcos... #605 grabs a car from Carovail Fertilizer before heading south for Eagle Bridge. Check out that Norfolk & Western covered hopper! Scanned from Fujic... (more)

What would normally be a harshly-lit shot at the North Creek station at 6:45 a.m. suddenly became muted by fog rising over the Hudson River. What better chance to shoot the Saratoga & North Creek... (more)

Tight shot of this classy EMD cab unit passing an old New England factory.

The northbound NYS&W stack train is at the end of its run from New Jersey. It's about to enter Conrail trackage in Solvay. Helping out today is a Delaware-Lackawanna M636. Scanned from Kodac... (more)

This Alco S-1 must receive new batteries before it can return to service. Though the unit is shown here sporting fresh Adirondack Scenic colors, it previously toiled for the U.S. Air Force in Rom... (more)

THE BLUE HOUR. A freshly-painted CP GP38-2 (of Lehigh Valley and Delaware and Hudson heritage) sits parked at Eagle Bridge, New York, at 5:11 p.m. on a frigid January night. The unit was ... (more)

SNOW TRAIN . . . but where's the snow? The Saratoga & North Creek Railway began operating "Snow Trains" between Saratoga Springs and North ... (more)

This GE 80-ton switcher formerly toiled for the Air Force in the same exact spot it now occasionally works for the MA&N. The location is the Griffiss Business & Technology Park, which is the late... (more)

I don't always shoot into the light, but when I do, it's to produce a calculated effect such as this. The textures in this scene emphasize the zero-degree temperatures braved by the crew and by p... (more)

HOME FOR CHRISTMAS. With Christmas just two days away, Clarendon & Pittsford 204 rolls through East Dorset, Vt., in light snow. Apparently the people of East Dorset mailed their gi... (more)

SNOW TRAIN . . . but where's the snow? The Saratoga & North Creek Railway began operating "Snow Trains" between Saratoga Springs and North ... (more)

Grandma Moses Was Here. Famous folk artist Grandma Moses lived a stone's throw away from the station at Eagle Bridge. Let your mind reach back through the veil of time; let it co... (more)

The Bird Is the Word! While photographers from across the region are flocking to the Saratoga & North Creek Railway, this gaggle of Canada geese seem not to be impressed by the E8 p... (more)

The MA&N crew for the day pauses for lunch before leaving Boonville with one car for Utica. The feed mill in Boonville, barely visible behind the crossing, has been a rail customer for more than ... (more)

The Amtrak Veterans' Unit blasts through Amsterdam, New York, on the eastbound Lake Shore Limited. The old carpet mills high on the hill (upper-right corner of the frame) are reminders of the cit... (more)