One of CP Rail's famous yellow wide vision cabooses brings up the rear of a westbound freight as it rolls by the speeder shed and station in a snow storm on (US) Presidents Day weekend in February... (more)

On a cold winter day, a loaded Western Maryland coal train arrives at Hagerstown, MD, behind an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 quartet. Here the pusher set on the rear that assisted it uphill from of the Potomac... (more)

In later years the Western Maryland's pair of EMD BL2s were assigned to yard jobs at Hagerstown, MD, paired with homemade slugs for extra tractive effort. WM 82, seen working here on a winter day ... (more)

Mt. Washington Cog Railway, Bretton Woods, NH

Light power heads NB up the 2.07% grade in the Boreas River canyon on the former D&H Sanford Lake Branch. This grade runs from the Hudson River bridge to Stillwater siding. The power is going to g... (more)

On December 22 a plow train was called to clear the tracks between Hurricane and Cantwell. With a limited amount of daylight to work with, about 4.5 hours in total, I tried my best to capture the ... (more)

On a winter afternoon, the sound of EMD and Alco power hard at work fills the air as an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 lashup grinds up Williamsport Hill with an eastbound Western Maryland coal train. Four more ... (more)

Restored Texaco Fireless Cooker 7240 is blanketed by snow at the Whippany Railway Museum. The 7240 had once serviced Texaco at its Bayonne, N.J. facility.

A B&P coke train crosses through the valley as snow blows in front of the setting sun on a frigid January day.

Locomotives:
WE 6387 SD40-2
WE 6992 SD40-2
BPRR 2031 GP38-2

January had a lot more snow last year versus the practically no freezing temperatures we've had this year in Portland.

January had a lot more snow last year versus the practically no freezing temperatures we've had this year in Portland.

71 years ago, in January of 1947, Milwaukee, WI had one of their biggest blizzards in history. 19" of snow fell with drifts 4 feet or more high. It shut the city down completely as people act... (more)

ADIX 1835 rests in the yard at Utica, New York.

An MBTA Lowell-Boston commuter train behind FP-10 1102 passes stopped Boston & Maine freight EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) led by GP18 1755. The action occurred just outside the North Billeri... (more)

L424-12 crests the summit of Washington Hill on the CSX Berkshire Sub in near whiteout conditions.