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)

Hartford to West Springfield train CSO-4 gingerly makes its way over the Amtrak Connecticut River bridge. Clever dispatching is involved here, as the freight was slotted between a CTrail commuter ... (more)

Amtrak's "Vermonter" departs for New Haven and points south. If and when the plan to rebuild Interstate 84 through Hartford goes through, this view will look very different, as most of t... (more)

The Railroad Museum of New England's "Northern Lights Limited" prepares for its departure to Waterbury.

Naugatuck Railroad's "Santa Express" train returns to Thomaston after making an afternoon run up to East Litchfield.

Amtrak's latest "wrap job" pauses briefly at New Haven on its first journey to Boston.

A couple of leased GP38-2s provide power for this day's Housatonic Railroad NX-12 as it switches the Specialty Minerals limestone plant in North Canaan. Once done, the train will head north to the... (more)

Amtrak recently reinstated service to Vermont after a long COVID-19 hiatus, including Trains 55/56 "Vermonter" service operating between Washington, D.C. and St. Albans, VT. Here, northb... (more)

A South Norwalk-bound train from Danbury emerges from the short tunnel underneath downtown Norwalk.

Amtrak 50, the eastbound "Cardinal," approaches the interlocking at Mt. Carbon, the beginning of a brief stretch of single track on the former Chesapeake & Ohio Newport News-Cincinnati m... (more)

Union Station in New Haven was for many years famous as the changeover point between electric operations and steam/diesel operations on the former New Haven Railroad's Shore Line and Springfield L... (more)

A southbound Empire Service train cruises along the Hudson River just north of the Breakneck Ridge tunnels, with Bannerman's Castle in the background.

CTrail's first rebuilt Genesis unit is on the last lap of its return trip from Beech Grove, having been dropped off just a few hours prior to this shot by Connecticut Southern's nightly train from... (more)

Having just switched out the Shepaug Transload Facility along the former New Haven Railroad Maybrook Line, NX-10 heads back to Berkshire Junction.