"Classic Colors @ New Hampshire’s First Amtrak Stop"

On February 24th, 2024, Amtrak P42DC #145, painted in Phase III heritage, leads southbound Vermonter Train 57 into the station a... (more)

The first trio of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. New England Central C40-8Ws, NECR 4063, 4064, and 4066, cross the Sugar River Trestle in Claremont, NH, late on the evening of March 4, 2024.

A nice change from the too common NECR 437, finds GP40 wide cab 3015 handling the WRJ local assignments while 437 was in the shop

Claremont & Concord GE 44-tonner #31 at the siding for the Coy Paper Co. outside of Claremont, N.H. in April, 1977.

With the tunnel project in Middlebury coming to a close, the detours over the NECR will be too. So I took a sunny day off and headed north. After some engine troubles in Bellows Falls, the north... (more)

Vermont Rail System detour train RDBD-22 is seen northbound on the New England Central Railroad Sugar River Trestle at Claremont, NH on July 22, 2020, with the now normal quartet of GMTX GP38-2 le... (more)

Claremont & Concord 44-Tonner 31 was working hard as it pulled a loaded boxcar up one of the hills in the street-running trackage in Claremont, NH, that was once part of the Claremont Electric Rai... (more)

New England Central continues to recover from last month's CN strike and traffic levels remain extremely high. Cold weather and snow cause some delays to switching, throwing the normally nocturna... (more)

Another late-running New England Central Railroad train 324 heads south with an extremely well-timed patch of sun that was moving east toward the camera as the train headed south with SD40M-2s 347... (more)

Getting a load out of Claremont Paper. As the cars got heavier and the engines more tired, it was sometimes necessary to use two locomotives to get up this grade and around this tight curve. It co... (more)

Arctic cold air following a weekend New England snow storm caused significant delays for the normally nocturnal New England Central Railroad freight train 324-21 from St. Albans, Vermont to Palmer... (more)

Claremont & Concord 44-Tonner 31 makes its way past one of the mills in Claremont, NH, on a summer morning. This little engine was built for the Lackawanna in 1948 as DL&W 52.

With a single empty boxcar in tow, Claremont & Concord 44-Tonner 31 departs the C&C's yard in downtown Claremont, NH, for the Boston & Maine interchange at Claremont Junction, three miles away. Th... (more)

On November 15, Pan Am Railways executive staff, including President David Fink, Jr. and owner Timothy Mellon, set out for a full Connecticut River Line inspection, originating in Plainville, Conn... (more)

Claremont & Concord #18 eases a single box car down the steep grade into Coy Paper... a move that was the slightest bit extra challenging on this icy morning.