On November 15, Pan Am Railways executive staff, including President David Fink, Jr. and owner Timothy Mellon, set out for a full Connecticut River Line inspection, originating in Plainville, Conn... (more)

Patched and Painted. Pan Am's POED rumbles through Orange with a pair of ever-common GE C40-8's. What keeps these units interesting is the mismatched patch jobs each unit receives to hide its form... (more)

Pan Am's Office Car Special comes out of the tunnel that goes under route 9 in New Britain.

A pair of GP40s lead Pan Am's Office Car Special towards Plainville yard, where it will tie down for the night. The FP9s that normally power the OCS, were not used as they lack cab signal equipmen... (more)

Taken from the MBTA parking garage, BO-1 hurries through Downtown Lynn with five empties from Rousselot in tow. A couple days a week, this local services the only two remaining customers on the No... (more)

Its Late afternoon in Plainville and the local job PL-1 is just getting started by taking 5 tanks cars from Plainville yard west to Terryville to drop off and pick up loaded ones.

Two ex CSX B40-8 switch the western end of the Deerfield yard in the late afternoon.

Time for a story.

So, as a railfan and photographer we all have those places we have to see and shoot once in our lives. Those "bucket list" spots that are Meccas for those of ... (more)

A rainbow appears during a brief break of sun as the Pan Am Southern limestone slurry train BFPO heads across the causeway out of Riverside yard.

Pan Am SD40-2 #3402 leads PAR POED west around a curve at Madbury, NH, on a warm summer evening. With the C40-8s taking over the railroad as of recently, this was surely a rare sight in 2017.

Pan Am train AD-1 parallels Zoar Road and the Deerfield River in Zoar, MA. Leading today's local out of North Adams is MEC 353, a former Penn Central GP40 built in 1969 by EMD.

Touchdown! Yep - that's more than an illusion, that IS the plow scraping the rail head as the PAS BFPO emerges from the 'dip' and grade through the Bellows Falls tunnel with the Saturday slurry t... (more)

The 'dip' and grade through the Bellows Falls tunnel is evident if you look at the image closely and see the slurry cars on through the bore on Pan Am Southern's Saturday slurry train, BFPO-29. L... (more)

Pan Am Railways PAR 1 and PAR 2 pass through Reading, Ma while they lead the OCS into the Boston Engine Terminal for special trips out of North Station the next day.

End of an era. After serving the Boston & Maine and it's successors since 1957, the GP9 era on the B&M is coming to an end. Parked at the extreme western end of the former Boston & Maine, the 2 Pa... (more)