With a string of empty pulpwood flats behind its GP7, the Maine Central's Lewiston Lower branch freight approaches Brunswick, ME, on a fall morning.

Maine Central train RY-2, the daily run over the Mountain Subdivision between Portland, ME, and St. Johnsbury, VT, comes storming through the village of Sebago Lake, ME, behind a quartet of GP38s.

A northbound D&H train passes the D&H coal shed in Cobleskill, NY.

The first light of morning greets the D&H “puller job” at Jefferson Junction, Pennsylvania. There have been no trains in some time, as snow from an overnight storm is still on the rails.

Four Maine Central GE’s in four paint schemes and Delaware & Hudson’s bicentennial RS3m are assigned to the D&H “puller job” at Brandt, Pennsylvania. After the rear of their clears the swi... (more)

Delaware & Hudson’s “puller job” is seen at Jefferson Junction, Pennsylvania, waiting for the arrival of another Belden Hill detour train.

Delaware & Hudson’s “puller job” idles at Jefferson Junction od a cold December morning. GE and Alco exhaust hangs heavy over what once was the junction between the D&H Penn Division and the... (more)

During the Belden Hill tunnel enlargement project, all Delaware & Hudson traffic between Binghamton and the north was detoured via the former Erie Southern Tier line and the northern remnant of th... (more)

The Richmondville Hill pushers couple on to the D&H caboose of an eastbound train near Schenevus, NY.

One of the Maine Central's ex-Rock Island U25Bs teamed up with a Delaware & Hudson Century 420 on an eastbound Boston & Maine freight making a pickup at Ayer, MA.

Maine Central GE 44-Tonner 17, one of seven such centercabs the railroad once owned, switched the Lewiston, ME, yard on a Saturday afternoon. I love the classic marker lamps.

Interim scheme

There was a little break in the clouds for once on this trip. After a week I decided that the only way to railfan New England is to live there and have no other commitments other than waiting fo... (more)

Nightfall finds a Delaware & Hudson manifest departing Packerton, Pennsylvania. Maine Central units outnumber the D&H ones 3-2.