During the Delaware & Hudson Belden Hill tunnel enlargement project, a puller job for the detour trains waits on the Penn Division main line at Jefferson Junction, Pennsylvania.

The Sisters Defying Time: The Pan Am Railways OCS crosses the Androscoggin River from Lewiston into Auburn, Maine on its trek west to Rigby yard in Portland. A beautiful day coupled with an equall... (more)

Three of Maine Central’s Independence Class “baby boats” and a GP7 lead a train into Rigby Yard in Portland, Mane. The ten U18’s were named for revolutionary war patriots and concepts, and... (more)

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.

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.

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.

After sitting on Conrail’s Southern Tier main line in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania for hours, this southbound Delaware & Hudson train has a relief crew. The Belden Hill detour train can now continue ... (more)

With two U18B’s and two GP38’s, a Maine Central manifest heads north out od Rigby Yard in South Portland, Maine.

Detoured Pan Am Southern trains are continuing to run over Vermont Rail System due to the recent collapse and structural issues with the Hoosac Tunnel. Here, Train 11R heads south on the VTR B&R ... (more)

A Maine Central U18B that has arrived from Portland on Mountain Division train RY-2 rests outside the station at St. Johnsbury, VT. In the morning it will be on its way back to Rigby Yard.

The SU-1 puller job for the Penn Division detours has five Maine Central GE’s on this cold December day.