Spending The Day With No. 25 As I Turn 25. While it's extremely rare my parents manage to pull any surprise relating a train-related event off...my Mom managed to do this year. Traveling up... (more)

Take the last train to Alna Center.... Conductor John Roberts (with the fur hat) uses his kerosene-burning lantern to direct Engineer Bob Longo in coupling Locomotive #10 to Coach 8 for the... (more)

Sheepscot at Dusk. In the twilight on a cold December evening, the WW&F crew couples Forney #10 to a pair of coaches as they prepare for the annual night run to Alna Center....the last run ... (more)

Farewell to Number 4. After picking up patrons following a photo run-by at Fish Point, Monson #4 and her train resume their eastbound trek (compass west....go figure!) back toward the old P... (more)

Just another day in Paradise. Engineer Ross eases his 8-car, 4 o'clock excursion train out of the yard at Lehman Place Junction en route back to East Strasburg. For many years, the turning... (more)

Steam on the Naugy. Flagg Coal 75 shows off her muscles as she hauls 3 former CNR heavyweight steel coaches and a wooden CV Caboose north along Connecticut's Naugatuck River on an afternoon... (more)

The Huckleberry Railroad's K-27 "Mudhen" pulls the 4PM excursion train eastbound across the Genesee Trestle on a rather gloomy Friday. Locomotive 464 is one of only two remaining examples of the ... (more)

Mudhen Pan. No folks, this isn't Colorado, it's Michigan. Here's a 1/13 second panning shot of a Baldwin K-27 "Mudhen" as she negotiates the West Loop on the Huckleberry Railroad in Flint.... (more)

The last revenue run of the day whistles the unpaved crossing at Alna Center enroute to Sheepscot Station. The mixed train you see was very typical of 2 foot operations in Maine during the early ... (more)

Of all of the photo spots on the New Hope & Ivyland's regular steam run, the Lower Mountain Road crossing offers the best chance to see the locomotive working hard. As the train approaches the c... (more)

New Hope's Consolidation #40 begins to pick up the pace as she hauls her three steel passenger coaches on the hourly southbound run toward Lahaska. This is one photogenic railroad with plenty of... (more)

The western terminus of the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad's trackage is adjacent to Portland's new Marine Terminal, where large cruise ships often dock. There, a passing track exists so that the t... (more)

Portland Maine's Eastern Promenade is graced by a piece of the state's transportation history. A two-foot gauge excursion train from the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum, with Monson... (more)

Few steam tourist lines enjoy beautiful waterfront views along their entire length. Such is the case with the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum. The line's 1.5 mile track follows the ol... (more)

The only original Maine 2-foot locomotive that has a current FRA Form 4 is Monson Railroad #4. She's a 20-ton product of the Vulcan Iron Works and was built in 1918 for the Monson Railroad in Ma... (more)