"The Pine Tree Route"

You know it's bad when you write the caption in your head before you even take the shot! But when I saw this young white pine growing along the... (more)

Pan Am detour train 16R-26 is eastbound on the VRS Green Mountain Railroad Bellows Falls Subdivision with MEC B40-8 5967 leading GP40 352, B40-8 5966 and B40-8 5973 as it breaks the midnight silen... (more)

A frozen aggacultural setting makes for a great scene as a detoured Pan Am 16R rolls into East Northfield. A sting of luck has happened with these detours keeping those rolling dumpster fire CSX p... (more)

"Pan Am High & Wide at CPR-1" A Pan Am Railways high and wide train sits just north of CPR-1 in Springfield, Massachusetts on the Connecticut River Line. The train is waiting for a weekend... (more)

Detoured train Pan Am train 16R passes a Boston & Maine searchlight signal as it makes its way south on the New England Central Railroad at Westminster, VT

Before the Fall!

Less than two weeks after this shot was taken - on February 12th - a portion of the west end of the 150 year old bore would collapse severing Pan Am Southern's... (more)

Looking north from the Mill Street crossing we see the southbound Pan Am 16R detour train passing through the 278 ft long tunnel under the center of the village of Bellows Falls.

The... (more)

POAY is seen heading West through Lowell approaching the Boston & Maine searchlights at BY (Bleachery). ... (more)

The city of Rutland is in the distance behind Pan Am Railway's detour train 11R as it leaves the Rutland yard limits on the B&R sub. Pan Am has been detouring their trains over the Vermont Rail Sy... (more)

POAY is seen heading West through Lowell passing under the Boston & Maine searchlights at BY (Bleachery). ... (more)

POAY is seen heading West through North Andover with a nice leader on an unseasonably warm Winter day. ... (more)

Pan Am detour train 11R-24 is pulling toward Riverside Yard in Rockingham, Vermont, on the GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision. The train is on the causeway splitting the Connecticut River (NH) and We... (more)

Detoured train 16R with B40-8 5967 leading 3 other B40-8s blasts across the stone arch bridge over the Fall River in Bernardston, MA.

As a result of the partial collapse of the Hoosac Tunnel, Pan Am manifest trains have been running a circuitous route from Hoosick Jct, NY to Bellows Falls over the Vermont Rail System. Here we se... (more)

Pan Am 11R leaves the city of Rutland behind as it approaches Mill River Lumber in North Clarendon, VT where a small army of railfans waits to photograph it at this "must shoot" location... (more)