Interloper. The Strasburg's lone EMD locomotive slumbers outside the shop. A few years prior to this photo, I shot this same engine in Bellefonte in the bright green paint scheme o... (more)

Different Eras Meet. Although December is definitely not beach weather in New England, I nonetheless visited Niantic Beach to record 2002-built Acela Express rolling across the 1907... (more)

Quintessential Amish Country. One Lancaster County icon passes another as SRC 475 returns to Strasburg from Leaman Place. The cemetary adjacent to Carpenter's Crossing is said to b... (more)

Over The River And Through The Woods, literally. In the attraction's early years, the owners of Clark's Trading Post discovered a Howe Covered Truss bridge in Vermont. After being ... (more)

Half Covered Wagon, Half RDC. New Haven's five-unit Roger Williams trainset was built by Budd. The three center units were essentially off-the-shelf RDCs, but the two end un... (more)

Great Northern on the Boston & Maine. A former Great Northern GP9, now privately owned and spending her retirement on the former Boston & Maine, leads an excursion as part of the more)

Orders. With passengers waiting on the platform, the station agent hoops up orders to the engineer on the one local passenger train that still serves this corner of New Hampshire. ... (more)

Move It Or Lose It. To be fair, there's not a lot of train traffic in front of the courthouse in Peabody Square. But the flashing lights and blaring horn should have been enough wa... (more)

Logging Lokie. The former East Branch & Lincoln Baldwin 2-4-2 #5 sits in front of Clark's Trading Post, a roadside attraction w... (more)

An Odd Beast. WMC broke out the REO Speedwagon Railbus for the Flying Yankee Restoration Group's White Mountain Railfest. After a f... (more)

Tools Of The Trade. All of the things that make this probably the best-equipped steam locomotive shop in North America fill up all the space not occupied by locomotives. The cage i... (more)

Bench Warmer. A patriotic-looking NECR unit sits out the night in CSOR's East Hartford yard. The local crew that came on duty earlier in the evening took a pair of Dash 8s to work,... (more)

Never Their Trains Shall Meet. Three locomotives that probably never met while in revenue service share space around the turntable on a warm night in Owosso. Will they ever meet ag... (more)

Pulling Hard. Performing a photo runby for the Massachusetts Bay Railroad Enthusiasts, FC 75 puts on quite a show dragging three heavyweight ... (more)