The Monongahela Heritage Unit waited between coal train assignments in Bow, New Hampshire, one mid-October day in 2015. Naturally, the foliage directly adjacent to the locomotive had not yet chan... (more)
Nearly fifteen years after Conrail's takeover by NS and CSX, Conrail equipment kept rolling. This standard hopper car with non-rotary couplers was hauling coal well into the days of more modern t... (more)
Loaded coal train arrives at the Bow Power Plant and is about to spot the train in a persistent snow. The ditch lights have icicles from the melted snow too. The lineup was a nice mix of models ... (more)
An unidentified crewmember has the unenviable task of lugging his gear through more than a foot of fresh New Hampshire snowfall in order to get to the lead unit of his train.
A former BNSF unit, now lettered for and owned by the Providence & Worcester, is on the point, albeit briefly, of an empty coal train in Bow, N.H., on Pan Am rails. The P&W power set brought a li... (more)
An empty coal train departs the power plant at Bow, N.H., at 2:43 p.m. A Providence & Worcester (ex-BNSF) power set sits on Perini Siding after having brought another train up from the south earl... (more)
Head To Toe. NS power from loaded (left) and empty (right) coal drags congregate in Bow. The loaded train is represented only by two of its three locomotives; the third unit and th... (more)
New power for the P&W makes for a colorful lashup sitting on the siding at Bow with two ex BNSF B40-8W (562 & 582) making bookends with PW 3007, GMTX 2177 and PW 2215 sandwiched in between the two... (more)
Facing On A Single Track... With half a world behind each back, loaded and empty coal drags face off on New Year's Day. The empty P&W-powered train on the siding came from the Port... (more)
Weekend Off. With the railroad essentially shut down for the New Years holiday, this coal drag for PSNH's Bow plant will have to wait to be unloaded. Not only are no crews on duty ... (more)