Most of what you'll see on Amtrak's Springfield Line is passenger equipment, but if you play your cards right, you can reliably catch Connecticut Southern's Hartford, CT-West Springfield, MA turn ... (more)

An Amtrak New Haven-Springfield shuttle crosses the Enfield Falls Canal and prepares to cross the much longer bridge over the adjacent Connecticut River. The circa-1829 canal was built to circumve... (more)

Amtrak 449 exiting the Washington rock cut.

The southbound Vermonter dodges the late afternoon shadows as it arrives in Meriden.

CTrail train 4405 in Meriden on a March morning.

After a fresh snow fall the day before, Intermodal I022 coast down hill through the curve at MP 128 crossing over one the stone arch bridges along the B&A.

Train 4407 with a rebuilt P40BH leading in Windsor. Notice the window seals already needing replacement. The 12 Connecticut Department of Transportation P40s are being overhauled and repainted at ... (more)

Train 4407 ducks under Interstate 91 in Windsor Locks on the afternoon of February 9, 2022.

In Windsor, a pair of GE locomotives are in charge of Connecticut Southern train CSO-4, as they roll past milepost 43 on Amtrak’s Springfield Line.

The morning of January 12, 2022 had railfans from New England all over the B&A to photograph CSX 911 leading an intermodal train bound for Worcester. Had the motivation been there for me, I would ... (more)

Connecticut Southern train CSO-4, powered by CSOR 3901 and OHCR 8530, passes through Windsor Locks, CT on its journey from West Springfield, MA to Hartford, CT

As I was leaving the Amherst Railway Society's giant train show at the Eastern States Exposition, two of my friends gave me a heads up that an empty grain train had just passed them at Palmer. I k... (more)

With Covid making the rounds among the crews at VRS, customer service requirements dictated sending a Bellows Falls-based crew to run west to Rutland and back with freight. This would be the firs... (more)

The second or 3rd to final NPWJ of 2021 catches some nice afternoon sunlight for the photographers on an otherwise cloudy day between Newport and White River Junction, with engine 202 doing the ho... (more)

Vermont Rail System found themselves power short once again in December 2021, and the last line of defense is Green Mountain 405 was called upon to handle the Bellows Falls area local duties. Here... (more)