Pan Am train RUPO (Rumford to Portland Maine) crosses the large bridge in downtown Lewiston on former Maine Central tracks as it makes its way west (compass south) to Portland.

After a long cold day and night of photography Pere Marquette 1225 is posed on the Owosso Turntable before being tucked into the engine house for the night

Wiscasset Waterville, and Farmington 9 zooms through Alna Center, as part of a photography special put on by the railroad. Patrons were treated to recreated scene from a bygone era.

NHN GP18 1801 leads a are Sunday extra southbound through Milton, NH

Reading and Northern GP38-2s 2012 and 2011 bracket the "Hometown High Bridge Train" seen here rolling of its namesake bridge over the Little Schuykill River.

Grand Canyon 2-8-0 29 and 2-8-2 4960 put on a spectacular show as they storm upgrade through Coconino Canyon.

Reading & Northern 4-6-2 425 has its 14 car train and SD50 helper moving right along as it storms upgrade out of picturesque Nesquehoning, PA and past the KME Fire Truck Plant on its return trip ... (more)

At the height of golden hour, Grand Canyon Railway's ex LS&I 2-8-0 29 rockets across the desert at track speed of 40MPH.

NECR 611 hammers through Vernon, VT with 3 SD40-2s and 103 cars of mixed freight. The train would later stall on Belchertown Hill due to its weight, but while it lasted the 3 SD's made a great sho... (more)

Detoured train Pan Am train 16R snakes its way through Cavendish Gulf deep in the Green Moutnains of Vermont with a hodgepodge of Vermont Railway and Pan Am power with VTR GP38-3 207b leading the ... (more)

VRS train 263 rolls downgrade through Gassetts on its way to the Pan Am Interchange at Bellows Falls.

Strasburg Railroad's former Norfolk & Western 4-8-0 4755 masquerades as a sister unit, N&W 382 as it rolls through the golden afternoon light at the Esbenshade Grade Crossing outside Strasburg.

Pere Marquette 1225 rolls through the farm land outside of Owosso, MI in the gorgeous afternoon light.

Reading and Northern 4-6-2 charges into the afternoon sun with the 3pm edition of the Schuykill Haven Boro Days excursion as it passed under the former PRR bridge near Auburn, PA

With fall pretty much over, and colder temps settling in, I decided to throw back to February 2016 where we see Reading Northern 4-6-2 425 storming across the Hometown High Bridge on the ex CNJ Ne... (more)