Trains at Night

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wooden coal and grain elevator in vermont

Danby, Vermont - 2020
Passing E.C. Crosby and Sons, a former customer

Train passing under an abandoned coaling tower

Oakland, Pennsylvania - 2020
New York Susquehanna and Western at the former Erie Railroad coaling tower

CSX GP38-3 passes behind Gladhill's store and postoffice

Greenstone, Pennsylvania - 2017
Gladstone's Post Office / General Store / Railroad Telegraph Office. Built c 1899. It remains in the family.

Four yellowjacket locomotives pass in front of the large brick starrucca house - station and hotel

Susquehanna, Pennsylvania - 2017
Overnight rest-stop on the Erie Railroad overlooking locomotive and car shops.

ex CSX B40-8s on a stone arch bridge

Bernardston, Massachusetts - 2017
Built in the 1840s, stone arch bridge over the Fall River is hosting a train headed south from Bellows Falls to East Deerfield.

Caboose exiting a tunnel

Tamaqua, Pennsylvania - 2017
A Reading Northern caboose exits Tamaqua Tunnel on the rear of the West Hazleton Fast Freight

bulkhead flatcars pass in front of XO Tower

Mechanicville, New York - 2014
XO Tower controlled the junction of the Delaware & Hudson and Boston & Maine

looking down onto the tracks of a bridge

Albany, New York - 2016
Livingston Avenue Bridge - LAB for short. One of only a handful bridges over the Hudson.

conveyor, forklift, covered hopper

Warwick, New York - 2016
O Winston Link illuminated a Lehigh & Hudson River Railway train passing this gristmill and its dam in 1976. I found very little changed 40 years later.

passenger train at a rural station

Ludlow, Vermont - 2016
Passenger train pauses under the semaphore signal at Ludlow's depot.

gp40 3040 passing an elevated crossing gate tower

Utica, New York - 2016
A Susquehanna train passes the Lackawanna crossing gate tower on Schuyler Street