16R (East Binghamton to Ayer) after arrival has detached a block of 30 hoppers. SD60E 6952, D9-44CW's 9577 & 9574 heading towards the east leg of the wye for Hill Yard. Hoppers are for Arden Mills... (more)
Train 418 from Wachusett to North Station. One of two F40PH-2's waiting to be sent out for rebuild.The other 1071 is awaiting transit. 1072 and five coaches leaving from Track 1 due to freight ac... (more)
Pan Am Railways (now CSX) MEC C40-8 5958 on Track 2 passing closed Ayer Tower. After waiting for MBTA Trains to clear Ayer Station they are on the move to Arrowhead at Berkshire Blvd. to pickup t... (more)
MBTA Pulling Freight A Sunday afternoon extra pulls a few flatcars out to Stoughton for a crossing replacement. Riding atop these cars were two strings of rail and a couple dozen ties. Two... (more)
MC 2008 sets out a privately-owned caboose into a siding in the yard at Hyannis. The caboose, Boston and Maine 456, previously resided on the Old Colony & Newport Railway and now calls Hyannis its... (more)
Midnight Blue In The Snow. On Saturday, February 25, 2023, Amtrak 100 (P42DC, 50th Anniversary, Midnight Blue) led Amtrak Train 54 (Vermonter). The train is seen passing over the Deerfield ... (more)
On a brisk sunny afternoon across from the Steaming Tender restaurant appeared the Mass Central job coming out of the north yard with a decent sized train. This was right after NECR was departing... (more)
PanAm train EDPO (East Deerfield-Portland) storms through Shirley Massachusetts during a severe blizzard that affected the area.
The entire Bay Colony Railroad crew operating the 1701 on an old piece of New Haven trackage far from their crew base in Dartmouth. On this day, they would pick up empty cement cars which were unl... (more)
Amtrak train 56, the northbound Vermonter, departed Washington DC in the morning behind AMTK ACS-64 652 pulling six cars (for those keeping score at home: AMTK 82531, 82748, 82691, 82782, ... (more)
PAR 1 returning to Boston from Worcester Massachusetts after it was showcased for a railroad exposition along with some MBTA equipment.
"Milford Park Critter at the Big E"
On the evening of January 28th, 2023, a New Jersey buff takes a look at the Milford Park Railway's custom built narrow gauge critter sitting on di... (more)
Ex-CSX (now CSX again!) GEs await their next assignment.
All quiet in East Deerfield.
A small Amtrak Hartford Line train departs Springfield as the buildings in downtown loom in the background on an unusually warm January afternoon.