WOOSH! With cars landing in ditches on neighboring roadways, an Amtrak dual-mode diesel safely blasts an icicle-encrusted Empire Service train through the Town of Mohawk, nea... (more)

The northbound Downeaster kicks up leaves as it passes an old factory building in Exeter, New Hampshire. The Exeter station stop is visible through the trees to the right of the train.

P&W runthrough power waits to haul an empty limestone train south. Limestone is used in the scrubbers at a nearby power plant.

HERITAGE UNIT: MAIDEN RUN. Just about a month shy of her 69th birthday, this little Alco proved that she could still haul passenger trains in common carrier service at track speed ... (more)

HERITAGE UNIT: MAIDEN RUN. It's 7:50 a.m. in the Adirondacks. Fog hangs over the mountain peaks. A flock of nearby Canada geese honk at this photographer as they form a breakfast gaggle... (more)

"Private Property: No Trespassing." Every railroad photographer needs to identify and observe the "line in the sand." The Vermont Railway makes it easy at Park Street in Rutland. Dig... (more)

GMRC 263 rolls through Ludlow on its way from Rutland to Riverside.

Monday's Bennington & Rutland job departs Rutland while the power for Green Mountain train 263 waits next to the yard office.

A parked RJED on Pan Am Southern waits for a recrew in the early morning hours of a frigid January day. Temperatures hovered between zero and five degrees through most of the morning.

Soaring high above the Sacandaga River, SNC BL-2 No. 52 enjoys the "quiet life" on the trailing end of the southbound New York Express into Saratoga Springs. The crew will change positions and No... (more)

A few miles from the southern end of its run, the VTR B&R job skirts the marsh on the north side of North Bennington. After switching the connection with Pan Am Railways, the crew will head back n... (more)

Two Blasts from the Past. Though CSX is rapidly replacing the ancient steel New York Central-era signal bridges in the Mohawk Valley, a few remain in service, such as this one at Mi... (more)

The northbound Adirondack Scenic train from Utica to Thendara (Old Forge) glides across Kayuta Lake. THe Kayuta Trestle is one of only three truss bridges on this mountain railroad; the others ar... (more)

The B&R job plods along at a spot along Otter Creek, just south of Danby, on its way to North Bennington. I believe the mountain in the distance is either Green Mountain or the shoulder of Mt. Ta... (more)

At least eight Vermont Rail System geeps spent Memorial Day Weekend resting in Rutland. Four are visible here. No. 308 is a former Boston & Maine unit.