Flag Stop - Hadlyme. The Valley Railroad's 1PM "Santa Special" passes the Hadlyme Station as she enters the Ferry Road crossing on her run to North Chester. Decades ago, when th... (more)

New Haven J-1A Mikado. The Valley Railroad's J-1A Mikado #3025 takes a holiday Santa Special across the little trestle spanning the Falls River in Centerbrook, Connecticut, just a few hundr... (more)

Checkin' the oil. Valley Railroad locomotive crew members perform a quick check of the lubrication system on the trailing truck of New Haven 3025 during a brief break between their daylight... (more)

Deep River Landing. The Valley Railroad's logo refers to the operation as "The Connecticut Valley Line", and the right-of-way does indeed follow the shoreline of the Connecticut River. Des... (more)

Crossing chilly Deep River Creek. Valley Railroad Engineer Ken Blandina takes New Haven 3025 and 8 heavyweight coaches north across the Deep River Creek bridge on a late afternoon Santa Spe... (more)

The trains don't stop here anymore. One of the Valley Railroad's sold-out Santa Specials high-balls past the tiny Chester Station en route to the North Pole, with veteran Engineer Bruce Edg... (more)

The Valley Railroads recreated New Haven 2-8-2 departs Essex with the final train of the day.

The Valley Railroads recreated New Haven 2-8-2 steams along the Connecticut River with a morning train for Chester.

Caution! Student Driver. Valley Railroad Mikado #3025 rumbles southbound across Deep River Creek with a Student Engineer at her throttle and a veteran Engineer keeping watch from the gangwa... (more)

Deep in the cut. A Valley Railroad Engineer carefully backs NH 3025 out of the rock formation known as Tate's Cut, in the town of Deep River, Connecticut. On this particular day, the locom... (more)

Here is one of the youngest steam locomotives on the planet built 1988 in China. It's youth is one of the reasons the Valley RR selected this as it's most recent locomotive. It is much younger tha... (more)

I like to say that I planned this image but this is a grab shot. Here you see the result of the trainman putting the red fusee on the west of the track rather than the east side at Dock Road. When... (more)

The New Haven lives again on one of it's former secondary lines. The North Pole Express glides through Chester in recreation of years ago.

Here we see the Valley Railroad's "New Haven" No. 3025 at the grade crossing north of the station of Deep River CT while pulling the 5PM section of the "North Pole Express." Back in the shiny cars... (more)

Calling it a day, a crewman exits the freight house and gets ready to catch his ride home. Special thanks to Paul Horgan for allowing use of his Edsel Citation, even though the scene predates the... (more)