The Valley Railroads recreated New Haven 2-8-2 steams along the Connecticut River with a morning train for Chester.

Mikado Double Header - Valley Railroad 2-8-2s No 40 and 3025 team up to power two trains on the afternoon of August 21, 2013. Pictured here is the final run of the day. The shop forces re... (more)

She's back! Well, at least for a while. After nearly 8 months of downtime for running gear maintenance, Valley Railroad #40 is now back in the service, seen here taking a dead-head passeng... (more)

Locomotive #0900 sits Track 6 tied onto the South end of the Essex Clipper Dinner Train as it pumps up the air to start the Initial Terminal Test before being moved over to the Main track f... (more)

Caution! Student Driver. Valley Railroad Mikado #3025 rumbles southbound across Deep River Creek with a Student Engineer at her throttle and a veteran Engineer keeping watch from the gangwa... (more)

Back yard projects. We've all got 'em. Labor-intensive and perhaps expensive jobs that will need to get done at some point. Such is the case at Connecticut's Valley Railroad. You are loo... (more)

Deep in the cut. A Valley Railroad Engineer carefully backs NH 3025 out of the rock formation known as Tate's Cut, in the town of Deep River, Connecticut. On this particular day, the locom... (more)

Valley Railroad #40....minus a few parts. As she sits, the 40 looks a little bit like one of those stolen cars you find abandoned along the side of a highway. She's missing her wheels and ... (more)

Valley Railroad veteran No 97 powers a North Pole Express train through the Centerbrook section of Essex, CT. She's currently out of service awaiting her FRA mandated rebuild.

Here is one of the youngest steam locomotives on the planet built 1988 in China. It's youth is one of the reasons the Valley RR selected this as it's most recent locomotive. It is much younger tha... (more)

Valley Railroad workers remove a pair of trees blocking the path of a plow extra, consisting of former Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington plow and GE 80 ton 0901.

Golden Glow - Valley Railroad Locomotive 3025 poses for photos at the Night Photo Session A Lerro Productions Event

I like to say that I planned this image but this is a grab shot. Here you see the result of the trainman putting the red fusee on the west of the track rather than the east side at Dock Road. When... (more)

Coworkers. As the snow begins to fly, Valley Railroad Mikado No 40 pulls a trainload of families out of Essex Station with the second run of the North Pole Express. In the foreground is Valley V... (more)