Berkshire & Eastern is finally a railroad. The purchase of parts of the Pan Am Railways system by CSX called for spinning off basically everything west of Ayer, MA to this new Genesee & Wyoming af... (more)

11R cruises over the scenic Hoosic River in North Adams. The train will briefly enter Vermont in a few miles before passing into New York State and a crossing of the Hudson River north of Albany.

The 31 miles of the former Boston & Maine's west end between Hoosac Tunnel and East Deerfield Yard are completely devoid of any online traffic sources, and the route is not cleared for double-stac... (more)

Hoosac Tunnel is about 20 miles behind this train as it crosses the Deerfield River; East Deerfield Yard is only 10 miles ahead on this beautiful spring day in the Berkshires.

Westbound Pan Am Southern 265 crosses the Deerfield River at Florida, MA; the famed Hoosac Tunnel lies just a couple hundred yards ahead. In the coming months, this train will shift to CSX's B&A l... (more)

A Hartford-New Haven CTrail train passes the circa 1871 former train station at Wallingford, CT. Used by Amtrak until moving to a new station with high-level platforms about a half-mile north of h... (more)

In a shot taken on the last day of operation for Pan Am Railways, Pan Am Southern (joint venture between Pan Am Railways and Norfolk Southern) 16R comes off the system's western main line to Mecha... (more)

Piedmont service for Raleigh departs from Charlotte's circa 1962 former Southern Railway station.

Running almost an hour late, the midday "Piedmont" service from Raleigh slows for its station stop in Kannapolis, nearing its end point of Charlotte.

Swap out the locomotives and the cars, and this could just as easily be a scene from the 1950s or 1960s. Double-stacks and AC power seem to dominate today's rail scene, but if you dig deep enough ... (more)

PL-1 delivers a load of Oregon lumber on the old New Haven Canal Line. Just a few miles of this route remain with track in Connecticut; the rest has been transformed into a nicely-done bike trail.

Pan Am's daily Rigby Yard (South Portland, ME)-Ayer, MA freight cruises past a tidy farm in the waning days of the railroad's existence. CSX will take over here starting June 1.

Ayer-East Deerfield ED9 has just gotten underway on its journey on the former Boston & Maine line across northern Massachusetts. Ayer is today a major focal point of Pan Am Railways, and will cont... (more)

Connecticut Southern's workhorse Hartford, CT-West Springfield, MA freight is the victim of a long-standing challenging track layout in Springfield. In order to access CSX's West Springfield Yard ... (more)

Saturday morning in small town America, Windsor, Connecticut. Folks are walking their dogs and going for coffee, the letter carriers are loading up their mail trucks for their last runs of the wee... (more)