Trains at Night

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a train snakes along the Hudson River

Roa Hook, New York - 2021
Night freight on the Hudson River's passenger line

a train snakes along the Hudson River

Paw Paw, Maryland - 2021
A CSX manifest on the Magnolia Cutoff

silhouette of a train on an arch bridge

Windsor, Connecticut - 2020
Brownstone arch bridge and passenger train over the Farmington River

railroad crew stops traffic with lantern at a flagging-crossing-night

Troy, New York - 2017
Rusty rails, a short train and the crossing won't work. Protecting the crossing with a lantern.

train snakes along a curve in a river

Pownal, Vermont - 2019
An eastbound Pan Am train follows the Hoosac River, out of the Hudson Valley.

abandoned farm houses in the hudson valley with a smokey freight train

Stuyvesant, New York - 2019
Two abandoned houses along the line to New York City. First seen from an Amtrak train 20 years ealier.

nightswimming under a train bridge

Huntington, Massachusetts - 2016
Summer night, cooling off at a rope swing over the Westfield River while trains on the Berkshire Subdivision go about their work.

two gp35s cross a dirt road. The scene is wrapped by trees

Cornwall, Connecticut - 2017
Housatonic Railroad's daily freight works northbound in Cornwall, Connecticut. Old crossbucks are all that gaurd the crossing along this dirt section of River Road.

historic stone arch bridge

Chester, Massachusetts - 2019
I first visited the stone arch bridges as a teenager and have been returning to swim and watch trains work through the Berkshires for the last ten years.

train approaching from around a curve at night

Zoar, Massachusetts - 2020
Directions to points west: Soapstone, Hoosac Tunnel, North Adams

train working up a grade at night

Chester, Massachusetts - 2020
A westbound freight winds up Washington Hill on its way along the Boston & Albany