Track speed is 40mph here, and the 611 crew was doing every bit of it. They are racing north about 20 minutes out of Brattleboro VT, tring to beat the clock and the storms before canning.

The northbound 611 turn job crosses the Millers River on short time, as a huge storm blows by to the east.

Reminders. Almost 20 years after Amtrak service was rerouted off the former Central Vermont and onto a parallel former New Haven line, white ballast and superelevated curves still r... (more)

Rolling south through Stafford Springs, the Geometry Extra rolls by a block of archetypal brick buildings that have stood here since Central Vermont steam led The Newsboy to New London each... (more)

Inspecting. With FRA personnel inspecting the track on the Palmer Sub, the test train's engineer takes a moment to inspect the photographer as he rolls under Stafford Hollow Road.

Railfans in New England can almost always count on NECR to run with power we won't find anywhere else, even if it isn't theirs. CSOR 2340 is holding down the Palmer assignment, while other CSOR u... (more)

New England Central local train 600 pulls a large cut of empties from the yard at White River as it rolls south on the Roxbury Sub White River Runner with the FEC GP40-3 437 leading.

New England Central local train 600 pulls a large cut of empties from the yard at White River as it passes under Rt. 5 with the FEC GP40-3 437 leading.

An 80 car unit ethanol extra heads south through Stafford Springs, CT along the Middle River heading for the Providence & Worcester Railroad in Willimantic, CT. Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8... (more)

Small, Yet Important. Somehow, we as photographers get so caught up with the trains that we forget to notice "the other stuff." This switch stand only reaches about two feet off the groun... (more)

The New England Central paint scheme is a regional favorite, but unfortunately doesn't quite live up to the GM&O paint scheme this unit once wore. That's Hartford's Comcast Theater looming in the... (more)

NECR local train 600 (White River Local) power idles in front of teh White River depot with FEC SD40-2 722 and NECR GP38DC 3850 - fresh off arrival late last eve with the Sunday salt extra off the... (more)

Heading for Bethel, VT, NECR train 323 rounds the horseshoe curve on the Roxbury Sub at mile 36, with NECR SD40s 5032 and 6281, leading GP38 3857 and FEC GP40-3 437 with GP40-2 417 trailing, on th... (more)

New England Central train 323 rolls through the mile 20 S-curves on the NECR Roxbury Subdivision with NECR SD40 5032 leading SD40 6281, GP38 3857, and newly arrived Florida East Coast Railway GP40... (more)