The first ever passenger train into the new Maine Street Station in Brunswick is this Mother's Day Special. The station is already the home of several local businesses and it is proposed that whe... (more)

A detail view of the CERM's EMD FL9 as the crescent moon sets in the background. Canon EOS 20D, Canon 70-200mm f/4L. This photo is also the cover image for my 2010 Railroads After Dark calendar.... (more)

Freshly shopped FL9 enters Peninsula, Ohio station yard southbound with the day's train in the Cuyahoga Valley.

Train number 8, The Murray Hill is 40 minutes from Boston and hitting full stride with a light train even though it is pulling a grade. On this cloudy bright Sunday afternoon few of us New Haven R... (more)

The Patriot, mostly a mail train, at 800 PM doing one of the many great things the New Haven Railroad did for America. At every major stop between Boston and New York City this train picked up mai... (more)

A Maine Eastern excursion heads west on the afternoon of August 20, 2009 at Thomaston, Maine.

It's always been a habit of mine to slow and check down the rails at grade crossings. Today, that practice paid off. Noticing Maine Eastern's #3 train a mile down the tracks, I pulled into a dri... (more)

A southbound Metro North has stopped in Peekskill, NY. An FL9 in the retro New Haven scheme is pushing on the rear.

Trailing the consist

FLNX 484 on the point of NS 322. Looks can be deceiving. 322's power is making a reverse move into the fuel rack. The sun had gone down, fortunately there are a few lights near where I was stand... (more)

It's not Spring yet, but we're getting a nice color show here! Maine Eastern FL9 #489 has returned to the Morristown & Erie for maintenance work in the "off-season." Whippany Railway Museum's nice... (more)

Something to suit a variety of tastes: in addition to the FL9 pair, two then-new M-2 MUs; older MUs in both "Washboard" and "Mutt" varieties; and an Alco switcher.

Two down, forty to go... About 20 minutes after departing Brunswick, Maine Eastern's morning eastbound, led by two former Amtrak FL9s (488 and 489), vaults over a serene New Meadows River o... (more)