A Triumphant Return: On her debut excursion, Conway Scenic Railroad's former Canadian National 0-6-0 7470 clings to the cliffs high above the valley floor as it nears "The Gateway" in Crawford's N... (more)

Ammonoosuc starts pushing the single coach train up the COG railway to the summit of Mt.Washington

The 1 pm Hobo Railroad train departs Lincoln, crossing the Kancamagus Highway. The locomotive was built for Maine Central Railroad in 1949 and in its second life has been a longtime primary locomo... (more)

The coming winter is in the air as Boston & Maine train BJ-3 (Boston-White River Junction) rumbles north through Boscawen, NH, on a November morning, behind an F3/F7B/RS3 lashup. This line, the fo... (more)

On display at Clark's Trading Post in North Woodstock, NH. Info borrowed from Clark's website. "This Shay was built by Lima Locomotive Works at Lima Ohio in Dec 1917 as builder no. 2958. I... (more)

The 3 pm Hobo Railroad train departs Lincoln, crossing the Kancamagus Highway. The locomotive was built for Maine Central Railroad in 1949 and in its second life has been a longtime primary locomo... (more)

The Flying Yankee was built in 1935 for Maine Central and Boston and Maine Railroads for a passenger train to be jointly run between the two lines. The carbodys were built by Budd with the electri... (more)

Retired Boston & Maine/MBTA Buddliner cars sit along a siding in Lincoln, NH. Clearly, these cars have seen better days.

One of the lead RDCs of the Roger Williams train set sits on display in Lincoln, NH at the Hobo Railroad. The middle units of the five car set were standard Budd RDCs, but the end units were modif... (more)

Amtrak "Downeaster" train 694 coasts westbound at Plaistow, NH before taking the switch onto the No. 2 track at CPF 273, seen just behind us.

The ex-B&M roundhouse and yard in North Walpole, NH was the base for Steamtown's excursion train operations when it was in Vermont. A B&M switcher assigned to North Walpole - Bellows Falls idles ... (more)

NA1 makes its way up the Hillsboro Branch as they have just crossed the busy Route 101A crossing

Five matched 38 “golds” slog a small freight north along Route 12 out of Bellows Falls along the Connecticut River Valley on a warm May afternoon. One of those classic “so glad I did tha... (more)

Logs coming off the hill. In a scene that was likely a daily occurrence a century ago, the former East Branch & Lincoln Baldwin #5 brings a couple of loads of timber off the mountain, backi... (more)

The wood-line. Of the three major types of fuel used by steam locomotives, wood is probably the most time-consuming to load. Unlike coal and oil, which can be poured into a tender from ded... (more)