CTrail 4403 departs Wallingford Station on a Wednesday morning in September.

"Two Phases of Amtrak Over the Westfield River"

On the evening of October 14, 2022, Amtrak's Phase V & Phase VI 50th Anniversary P42DCs, #46 and #108, lead westbound Lake Shore Limi... (more)

CTrail train 6459 in Berlin.

The 3:30 departure of the Connecticut Valley Railroad regular train is seen at "The Meadow" in Centerbrook, just out of the station in Essex. The New Haven J-1 clone was actually buil... (more)

On the evening of Sunday, August 28, 2022, fellow friend and locomotive engineer Dave Horree gives a wave as he takes CTrail train 6459 towards New Haven. The train is passing the former New Haven... (more)

MEC 3404 Leads an Rotterdam Junction to East Deerfield freight over the Deerfield River on a warm Summer's day. Hard telling how long the Pan Am paint will last on the westend now that CSX has tak... (more)

Starting on Monday, July 18 through September 11, most Springfield Line trains will be replaced with buses, while Hartford Station gets rehabilitated. On the second to last day of CTrail service, ... (more)

Northeast Regional train 175 with ACS-64 606 in Old Saybrook. Locomotive 606 might be a familiar number to many as it previously wore the Coca-Cola or Polar Bear wrap, which was promoting Coke bev... (more)

"Seeing Double at Springfield"

Two P40BH led CTrail Hartford Line trains idle at Springfield Union Station on April 9th, 2022.

"CTrail Meet at Windsor Locks Yard"

On the afternoon of April 30th, 2022, CTrail Extra 6499 is seen holding in the Windsor Locks Yard siding as CTrail 6403 flies by on its scheduled s... (more)

Semaphore. An unusual feature of the Connecticut Trolley Museum line in East Windsor, Connecticut is operable semaphores. On the night of Saturday, April 30, 2022, Fair Haven & Westville Ra... (more)

Saturday morning in small town America, Windsor, Connecticut. Folks are walking their dogs and going for coffee, the letter carriers are loading up their mail trucks for their last runs of the wee... (more)

Most of what you'll see on Amtrak's Springfield Line is passenger equipment, but if you play your cards right, you can reliably catch Connecticut Southern's Hartford, CT-West Springfield, MA turn ... (more)

Amtrak 449 exiting the Washington rock cut.

The southbound Vermonter dodges the late afternoon shadows as it arrives in Meriden.