The high-and-wide extra arrives at its destination for the rail portion of the journey on the rebuilt 'Redstone Branch' (ex-MEC to Portland, ME). The load will be transferred onto a 12-axle truck ... (more)

The second part of the transformer load sails across Willey Brook Bridge on 20-axle Schnabel Car, BBCX 1000, as seen from the shoulder of Route 302. Railroad: Untitled
Locomotive: 20-Axle Schnabel Car
Location: Crawford Notch, New Hampshire, USA
Locomotive #: BBCX 1000
Train ID: CSRX High-Wide
Photo Date: June 20, 2009

LLPX 2607, on loan from the St. Lawrence & Atlantic for the move, leads the high-and-wide load south through the village of Northumberland along Route 3.

Low hanging clouds linger in the mountains north of Fabyan as CSRX 573 and the FP9 "sisters" lead the first revenue freight train over the ex-MEC since 1983 as two fishermen glance up at the first... (more)

The last operational ball signal in the United States shows stops at the Boston & Maine/Maine Central diamond in Whitefield, NH as a National Historic Site. The signal was built in 1875 according ... (more)

The "sisters" are now in charge of the high-and-wide move between Bartlett and North Conway as CSRX 6516 leads the train over a small creek east of Bartlett.

MEC 378 leads EDRJ past the Hoosick Falls depot on 11/12/2006. Sadly, the 150 year old station burned down only a few months later on the night of June 9, 2007 while still being used by Pan Am (Gu... (more)

With summer quickly approaching, I started looking through some old winter shots when I ran across this photo. NS 2856 leads a short local back to Vardo as a the snow intensifies. The GP38AC is no... (more)

NS 3376 brings SA22 out of Browns Yard located on the Amboy Secondary onto the Gillespie Branch on its way to the Ameristeel Plant in Sayreville. The Gillespie Branch was one of the few lines Conr... (more)

SA33 ducks under the NJ Turnpike and immediately crosses Route 535 on the western border of Jamesburg.

CSXT 4429 shoves back into the trees to drop off a boxcar at the loading dock at Builders General in Freehold.

All the pieces finally fell into place! The sun makes a rare weekday afternoon appearance for the first time in over a week as SA33 with NS 5271 shorthood forward passes the abandoned Helme Snuff ... (more)

NS 3376 pulls a loaded scrap metal train across Red Oak Lane with some ominous clouds off to the east.

Southern Style! NS 3376 runs longhood forward up the Gillespie Branch past the former Nabisco plant in Sayreville.

Well, it ain't the 3985 but I'll take it. CSXT 4429 meets a Dodge Challenger at the Main St. crossing in Tennent as the sun begins to fade behind the clouds on the horizon.