Twenty seven years can certainly change things when talking about the timeline of railroads! Many have come and gone in this amount of years, and the state of Maine has been no exception to this.... (more)

The benefits of bad weather......Thinking it could be my last chance in early 2020 to see a train in falling snow, I took a page from the recent Social Distancing manual and went out along Central... (more)

It's always a bonus when you can get out of work early and chase a train for good measure, but a third element of special comes when the weather brightens up and cooperates with you in time! Grab... (more)

On a beautiful March 9th, 2020, Central Maine & Quebec's Searsport turn was seen returning from a day of switching along the Maine shoreline. The "CIT" GP38s had things well in hand as they appro... (more)

While not the biggest snowstorm in recent memory by any means, a scheduled Monday off happened to work out as the Central Maine & Quebec hadn't run down the Searsport Branch since the previous wee... (more)

Having been in the area of Northern Maine Junction for most of the morning expecting just about any other train but this job, an engineer out of Brownville Junction would eventually drive himself ... (more)

Scanned from a damaged slide.....September 11th was very fresh in the minds of Americans and the rest of the world that following Saturday on what would be a newly insecure visit to Guilford's wes... (more)

The colors of Spring were well on their way in mid-May 2013, and Pan Am Railway's Bucksport Branch was alive and well while still shipping out paper like it had for over 80 years. May 19th's vers... (more)

Having been a night job for nearly nine months, Central Maine & Quebec's #211 has returned to daylight at least for now. On one of the few nicer days this May of 2019, The return leg of #211 had ... (more)

Nearly six years have passed since I pursued this BKNM advancing through Bucksport, Maine with cars for Bangor and points beyond. An impressive snow storm the day before had proven to be a chore,... (more)

An unusually hot Labor Day 2018 provided no relief when following Central Maine & Quebec's #211 along their Searsport Branch. Rolling cautiously over Marsh Stream from Winterport into Frankfort, ... (more)

New England Central's #608 had spent a good part of the midday switching in Palmer, MA on July 31, 2018 before they could finally return home to Willimantic, Connecticut. A couple hours later tha... (more)

A chase of the Housatonic's NX-13 was quickly coming to an end on May 18, 2018. In what could have been my only chance to follow this job this year, slower speeds through the area had let me get ... (more)

A short visit to North central Connecticut on May, 18, 2018 yielded my second New England Central #608 in as many days. With the era of blue and gold GP38s counting down fast, I'd follow these ex... (more)

New England Central's #608 was still working Palmer, MA on May 18, 2018, as we arrived for a hopeful pursuit of it back toward Connecticut. A matched set of blue and gold GP38s had been working t... (more)