CSX Mixed goods heading eastbound in the golden hour

Housatonic NX12 heads back to home rails passing the former GE transformer plant in Pittsfield, Ma

The weather is getting colder and the trees are changing color, perfect time for a back road, some geeps, and jointed rail in western CT!

Housatonic NX12 pokes out of the trees on this Sunday morning ride to New Milford

Housatonic NX12 is seen here grabbing the 3602 for their train, while leaving the 22 for Monday's NX10 in the New Milford Yard

MEC 345 hammers down through Kent, CT in a downpour

To my surprise after climbing up to get an angle on this shot, the canal that services the Falls Village Hydro-Electric plant on the Housatonic river is drained. Once every five-or-so years, First... (more)

Housatonic NX12 heads northbound along the Berkshire Line through Cornwall Bridge during a rain storm that left me completely drenched.

NX11 works Specialty Minerals in Canaan. Specialty Minerals is built off one of the two short remaining active sections of the Central New England Railway, which went from Maybrook NY to Hartford,... (more)

Conductor Nate Bugbee and Engineer Neal Mann discuss their plan of attack on the Specialty Minerals plant in Canaan. The NX11 job is used almost exclusively for doing the "Spem" job, as ... (more)

Housatonic NX13 makes its way through Housatonic, Mass after some late day thunderstorms stirred up some fog in the Berkshires. Notice the welded rail ready to be installed, and the bird who happe... (more)

Housatonic NX12 rumbles underneath "The Cement Bridge," as everyone around the area calls it. Note the car mere feet from the right of way. There is a house on the other side of the trac... (more)

A matched set of Housy's GP35's 3604 and 3602 snake along river road in West Cornwall, CT with a very long NX12 due to backlog from a derailment last week about a half mile north of here

Its the end of the line for this old GE 45 ton switch engine, parked in Falls Village CT with a connecting rod hanging out of one engine, and the cylinder heads off of the other. The vandals have ... (more)

3604 leads NX12 southbound through the historic village of Housatonic