The Empty Grain Train waits for his conductor just before Walker Road in Ayer. Sometimes it’s not always about what you see trackside, sometimes it’s about what you hear. While waiting for... (more)

11r lifts a cut of empties from SMS off the west side. In 20 min today’s crew will be back on there way south.

The crew of the POSE (Portland - Selkirk) has the AC cranked up as they approach the east wye a few minutes before some thunderstorms settle in.

The POSE (Portland - Selkirk) crosses over as it heads for the yard after a brief wait for an eastbound to exit the east wye. Meanwhile, a Loram rail grinder waits out the weekend on a siding just... (more)

For the first time, 2 of Pan Am repainted C40-8's have been coupled together to lead a train. The occasion was for a National Guard equipment move from New Hampshire. The leader unit has been appr... (more)

Two GE's lead the POED (Portland - East Deerfield) west under the signal bridge at Shirley.

The Pan Am wreck train rolls through Athol in the late afternoon on its way from East Deerfield to Royalston. Several gondolas full of "dirty dirt" from a cleanup in Maine derailed on Ju... (more)

The FI-1 shoves backwards towards the Fitchburg yard with a small cut of cars on a sweltering late August day.

An ex BN triclops SD60M, CBFX 6030, leads 28N east out of the Hoosac Tunnel.

The POSE (Portland - Selkirk) makes it's way into Ayer as it crosses Sandy Pond Road.

The Pan Am Southern Bellows Falls, VT to Portland, ME limestone slurry train BFPO-16, heads east on the Vermont Rail System GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision with MEC C40-8s 7552 and 7500. Train is ... (more)

My first and last trip to the apparent Mecca of Massachusetts railfans. The location lived up to it's quantity of photographers, all jockeying for positions on the bridge. The power on the POED wa... (more)

Train POED id arriving East Deerfield yard with a rare (these days) set of painted power led by C40-8 #7552 ( the first GE to get painted into Pan Am colors) and SD40-2 #619 as they cross the Conn... (more)

On a gorgeous start to the Memorial Day Weekend, a short RJED smokes it up as it climbs the grade out of Hudson River Valley out of Rotterdam Junction. A few of the worn out GECX dash 8 widecabs... (more)

EDBF (East Deerfield, MA - Bellows Falls, VT) with Vermont Railway SD70M-2 431 in its consist, heads north at CPF-385 in Greenfield.