On a foggy night the 2013 Polar Express is staged on the station track and loading passengers for the trip to the North Pole.

Over seventeen inches of new snow, NECR 324 behind Tunnel Motor 3317 and South Royalton combine to create a classic Vermont Holiday scene as 324 quietly rolls through the photogenic village at 03:... (more)

The 2013 Canadian Pacific Holiday Train crosses the causeway over Charter Marsh just south of Ticonderoga, NY on a cold Thanksgiving Day. The north end of the narrow section of Lake Champlain is i... (more)

Greg Klingler greets 9824 with the Holiday Train in tow with a wave as it crosses over a portion of the Hudson River onto Rogers Island in Fort Edward southbound at 04:32.

While exploring the abandoned Franklin & Tilton Railroad, I came across a cache of more than a dozen Boston & Maine mileposts, whistle posts, and other concrete posts and signage laying in the adj... (more)

An inbound Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad train pushes past the old factory buildings in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on a clear November day. Precisely three minutes and twelve seconds later, t... (more)

Ghostly Remains, Part 2. Another shot of the abandoned Gerrish Depot station in Boscawen, New Hampshire. For caption information, clic... (more)

The southbound Downeaster screams across the Salmon Falls River that straddles the border between Maine and New Hampshire. The fall foliage is 99% gone, but every year, a few delinquent oak trees... (more)

The northbound Downeaster kicks up leaves as it passes an old factory building in Exeter, New Hampshire. The Exeter station stop is visible through the trees to the right of the train.

A deadhead edition of the Pan Am Railways business train blasts through Lawrence, Massachusetts, passing quintessential New England factories on its way to Portland and Waterville, Maine. The new... (more)

Moving east at 10:07 a.m., a deadhead move of the Pan Am Railways business train dodges shadows as it passes a patch of late fall foliage in northeastern Massachusetts. I have always enjoyed scen... (more)

With both subjects looking fine at night under the lights, NECR Tunnel Motor 3317 rolls past the Randolph Coal and Ice Shed. A survivor from a time when homeowners used coal to heat with and ice f... (more)

A rare sight comes past the ex-D&H station in Port Henry, NY in the form of three rebuilt ex-SOO LNE SD60s leading 253 at 04:04! The photogenic EMDs had been gathered in a storage line until recen... (more)

The River Line is aglow with the yellow leaves of an Autumn morning.

Forty years ago, in 1973, the last train rumbled across this line. Today, this is a place for the intrepid explorer to enjoy solitude while pondering the vestiges of a lost way of rural life. It... (more)