Pan Am Ayer to Portland freight AYPO is seen knocking down the signals at CPF-LO and about to pass under Middlesex Street in Lowell.

It would appear that CN 2030 is leading a train stopped at Turcot Ouest, but it was actually the fourth unit on CN 305. The three units ahead have departed for Taschereau Yard to set off CN 3122.

Pan Am Portland to Ayer freight POAY is seen splitting the signals at BW 29 in North Andover with a matching blue lashup.

Pan Am Portland to Ayer road freight POAY is seen passing the former Boston & Maine 1906 depot at Wells Beach, Maine. The train has a matching set of all blue power with 7523, 619, 7518.

After some of the white stuff fell the day before now today it's just a plan old nice day. And a train showed up.

L&C 12 returns too Chester with the unique mother and slug set on point

Running south along the CN Iron Range sub having just went by the N. Biwabik signals and passing a string of veteran DMIR ore cars that are staged here for the winter. CN 2041 has 145 of the much... (more)

Heading south back to Proctor, MN with limestone empties on a clear winter's day.

CNW 8501 brings a coal train thru the bucolic countryside near Arcadia, IA in August of 1994. Driving on Hwy 30 kept you in close contact with the CNW mainline all the way thru Iowa and the consta... (more)

Rehab time. The former Boston & Maine Railroad bridge over the Merrimack River in Haverhill, MA was built and reformed in various stages from 1839 through 1928, creating the current two-track stee... (more)

An empty ore train out of Two Harbors is about 80 minutes into their trip north to the Minntac Plant near Mountain Iron. These trains make a daily trips to and from Two Harbors to load ore pellets... (more)

An empty ore train out of Two Harbors is about 80 minutes into their trip north to the Minntac Plant near Mountain Iron. These trains make the 168 mile round trip to and from Two Harbors many time... (more)

Retired and sold for scrap, NS 8717 spends its last days being picked over for parts before being cut up for scrap.

CN 2039 darkens the sky with a little throttle on this already gloomy overcast day as they head north on the CN Iron Range sub at Biwabik, MN.

On The Day That It Happened. Pan Am Railways POAY crosses the marsh in Scarborough, Maine on Friday, February 26, 2021 with C40-8 7489 leading (ex-CSX 7489, née CR-6025, GE, 3/1989). This w... (more)