NA-1 MEC 315 switches Hendrix Wire & Cable in Milford, NH on the rickety Hillsboro Branch yesterday afternoon. The crew pulled 2 empties and spotted 1 load before continuing to Wilton where they w... (more)

With the construction season well under way, the small Milford-Bennington Railroad comes back to life. Normally dormant in Winter, the sole purpose of this little railroad is run stone from a quar... (more)

At the moment, 3857 is the only unit in service on the NECR property to wear this scheme. Here, it leads the 601 local job south to Walpole, seen here passing Cornish, with a great crew too. 3845,... (more)

Train time up on the roof. The sun has gone for the day and the sky has begun to darken. A few stars begin to make their presence known. With the loss of the sun and a little wind, a di... (more)

A mountain EAST of Mt. Washington? After taking a few sunset photos on the west side of the summit of Mt. Washington, I wandered back over to the Cog Railway platform, which is on the east ... (more)

Approaching the summit. With just a few hundred yards to go, Mount Washington's Steam Locomotive #2 "Ammonoosuc" and her cherry red coach are entering the final curve on the line ... (more)

Golden Hour on "The Rock Pile". New Hampshire's Mt. Washington is sometimes referred to as "The Rock Pile", due to the rocky nature of its summit landscape. In this golden hour image, we ... (more)

Steamscape: Mt. Clay, Mt. Jefferson and the Great Gulf. The exhaust plume darkens as Fireman Mark "Cookie" Sodergren continues to shovel soft coal into the torch-like firebox of M... (more)

Railway above the clouds. About 30 minutes before sunset, Mt. Washington Railway Company Locomotive #2, "Ammonoosuc" and her cherry red coach emerge from a brightly lit undercast as they be... (more)

Negotiating Upper Waumbek Switch. When the Mt. Washington Cog Railway was originally constructed in 1869, and for roughly 7 decades afterward, the line was a single, 3.1 mile track. There ... (more)

The new/old Waumbek Tank. Approximately 1 mile from Marshfield Station, and 1,000 vertical feet higher, we find Waumbek Tank.....or more properly, Waumbek Station. Throughout the history ... (more)

3.1 miles of trestle. Mount Washington Railway Company Steam Locomotive #2 "Ammonoosuc" descends the wooden trestle on Cold Spring Hill, and will be bringing the 12 PM summit excu... (more)

New Hampshire Northcoast train D8 is seen pulling onto Pan Am trackage passing under Boston & Maine searchlight signals at CPF-241 in Rollinsford, NH. The train has 25 aggregate loads for Boston a... (more)

New Hampshire Northcoast train D8 is seen switching aggregate cars at Tri-City in Rochester.

Arriving at Marshfield Station. In this elevated view, we see Mt. Washington Railway #2 "Ammonoosuc" descending with her coach on the last few feet of track above the platform are... (more)