Just another day in Hagerstown, Md. in October 1982 when the local switch crew went to work on the last operating BL2 in freight service in the U. S. This is only the second active BL2 I'd ever se... (more)

On a foggy night the 2013 Polar Express is staged on the station track and loading passengers for the trip to the North Pole.

One of my reasons for making a trip to Maine in 1981 was this group of BL2's, a unit I'd never seen before. Regretfully this is pretty much what I ended up with. A long line of units covered with ... (more)

Kathy Lupton and Arnold Mooney greet the unlikely duo of BL2 52 and B39-8 8524 at 21:09 as the pair pulls in to the station stop at Riverside with train 185. Where else but on the S&NC can you fi... (more)

Saratoga and North Creek Railway's train number 185, the "Hudson Explorer", crosses the Sacandaga River just before its 7:55pm station stop at Hadley, New York.

Honoring the lines heritage as the Delaware & Hudson Adirondack Branch, S&NC BL2 52 wears a variation of the D&H paint scheme. "Champlain Blue" certainly looks great at night under the lights as ... (more)

A face only a mother could love. What you see here is an original Western Maryland locomotive built in 1948. with the exception of the ditch lights and the reflective dashes on the frame this lo... (more)

Built in 1948 by EMD this is an original Western Maryland locomotive working on the West Virginia Central. On this day it's making is first run after almost year after having extensive work done ... (more)

NorthCreek bound. Quite an array of power with quite diverse paint schemes on the Saratoga and North Creek accelerate out of Saratoga Springs with a train full of people to view the gorgeous scen... (more)

The historic SNC 52 sits tied down along side the Saratoga Rail Station awaiting its next run in the morning on a early June Sunday.

Thanks to a nice washing by engineer Brad Peterson (who is also at the controls of today's train), SNC BL-2 #52 looks great as it passes through the 1000 Acres Golf Course in Thurman with Saratoga... (more)

Leaving a quiet Gore Mountain behind, the ski train heads back home to Saratoga with a train load of skiers.This train runs Friday through Sunday and has been a huge succcess taking skiers from th... (more)

The NB Monday passenger deadhead move from Saratoga to North Creek, powered by a BL2, rolls up the main while S&NC's very first revenue freight move holds the siding. The freight train operated un... (more)