This picture reminds me that fall is just around the corner. I could apologize for the sparse foliage but I like the way the diminished colors contrast with the Bluebirds. A beetle that eats leave... (more)
RJED with HLCX 7182 and MEC 604 lead 63 cars along River Rd.
On one of its last runs SOO 767 leads an interesting mix out of the east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel on a perfect fall day. Power was SOO 767, MEC 306, CP 5802, CP 5577.
Colors of fall highlight local freight bound for North Adams. Another railfan observing this train remarked that the round cylinders were for processing sludge and were enroute to the Albany area ... (more)
Water vapor proceeds freight out of Hoosac Tunnel. When it hits the cool outside air it turns to fog and surrounds locomotives for several hundred feet from portal.
Home signal at Deerfield river bridge highlights the fairly new GP 40-2s climbing out of the Connecticut (Pioneer) River Valley.
SEED pushes a blast of cold air out of the 4.74 mile long Hoosac Tunnel creating a fog effect as it meets the hot, humid air outside. HLCX 6400 leads today's train east which is one of several lea... (more)
We are inside Hoosac Tunnel looking east. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
Guilford train EDMO with NS 8811 crosses the Deerfield River in Florida, MA just east of the famous Hoosac Tunnel.
CP 5902 has just exited the Hoosac Tunnel as it leads it's train, MOED, over the Deerfield River in the Berkshire Hills.
The best way to capture a misty moring mood is to spend all night at track side. So my friend ken and I rolled out our sleeping bags on top of a pile of ties. If we did this in our present time it... (more)
POMO crosses the Deerfield River and enters the east portal of Hoosac Tunnel
Guilford Rail Systems's MOED is crossing the Deerfield River eastbound as it exits the east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel.