Anatomy of a survivor. As most steam enthusiasts know by now, the owner of the Mt. Washington Cog Railway began a conversion to diesel power back in 2008. That conversion is largely compl... (more)

The Last Prince of Washington: Just last year, eight of the Mount Washington Cog Railway’s 0-2-2-0s roamed up and down the face of the east’s tallest peak in northern New Hampshire. But today,... (more)

About twenty minutes before the first scheduled train of the day leaves, I find this this job coming down the mountain in some nice light. I suspect that it was used to transport track workers up... (more)

A photographer takes a picture from the car's platform, while the engineer leans out the window of this green diesel to say something to a track worker. The train has just emerged from outside my... (more)

Hikers on Mt. Washington's Great Gulf Trail pause to watch the only steam powered train of the day head down the mountain. Weather on the mountain can be sporadic, as evidenced by this train passi... (more)

The Mount Washington Railway Company's venerable #2, "Ammonoosuc", enjoys a relatively gentle grade just moments after leaving Marshfield Station on a cool fall morning. I don't take a lot of ro... (more)

Sunset on the steam era at Mt. Washington. The early fall sun is just a few degrees above the horizon and the light is fading at Marshfield Station. Nearly all of the trains are now back ... (more)

Mt. Washington Railway Company's Locomotive #9 backs her train off the Skyline Siding after allowing an ascending train to pass. This is the highest of the two locations on the line where trains... (more)

Fall color is visible in the valley below, but a fresh snowfall covers Mount Washington with several inches of wet snow. This railroad is spectacular, but the new diesel engines lack the magic of ... (more)

The shadows are long and there's a definite chill in the air as we find MWRC #9 "Waumbek" taking the early morning steam special up Cold Spring Hill, enroute to the summit of Mt. Washington. An ... (more)

Cogscape - Cold Spring Hill. This shot may well depict one of the last times we'll ever see a steam engine on Mount Washington at 5PM. Sunday of Labor Day weekend is the last day of the o... (more)

Steam still lives at The Cog. It's just not nearly as common as it once was. On the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend, New England was blessed with high pressure, clear, dry air and calm winds. ... (more)

The newest power on the Mt. Washington Cog Railway is this diesel hydraulic locomotive, which emerged from the line's mechanical shop in the summer of 2009. M-3 joined the prototype, M-1, ... (more)

A brief break in an otherwise solid overcast illuminates the B-Section of the 3PM Train as it pulls away from the water stop at Waumbek Tank and heads for the summit. The contrasts abound on thi... (more)

4-Way Meet at Waumbek. Four Mt. Washington Railway trains converge at Waumbek Water Tank late on a fall afternoon. On the left, Diesel Locomotive M-1 handles the A-Section of the ascendin... (more)