Penn Central train PL-1 between Providence, RI, and Lowell, MA, via Mansfield and Framingham rolls north through Medfield, MA, behind an RS11/GP30/RS3 lashup. The two Alcos are ex-NH units and the... (more)

A Penn Central Boston-Washington train rolls through the big cut at Groton, CT, behind a pair of ex-PRR E8s, which by the summer of 1969 had taken over the ex-NH Shore Line from FL9s. This cut was... (more)

On a foggy morning, a pair of Penn Central E44 electrics lead an eastbound freight through Earnest Yard at Norristown, PA. Those open auto racks wouldn't be around much longer as vandalism was on ... (more)

As seen from the now-closed 138th Street station in the Bronx, a Penn Central Harlem Line train bound from Grand Central to Brewster crosses the big bridge over the Harlem River. A pair of ex-NH F... (more)

On the second day of 1971, Penn Central Harlem Line commuter trains meet at North White Plains station. The southbound Brewster-Grand Central run at the platform has the usual pair of FL9s, but th... (more)

This unusual RS3/GP9B pairing was assigned as a hump switcher at Penn Central's ex-New Haven Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, where they rested among assorted other power. Not long after this pho... (more)

A Penn Central freight out of Manhattan's West Side yards rolls north through the Croton-Harmon station behind a U33B/GP40 lashup.

Back when long freights were a common sight on the Northeast Corridor, a trio of Penn Central E44s march south through Monmouth Junction, NJ.

A solo GG1 heads up a short Penn Central freight gliding north through Monmouth Junction, NJ.

This Penn Central E8 didn’t make it to Amtrak, and has now run its last mile. It is sitting the Altoona dead line waiting to donate its prime movers to the DeWitt Geep RS3 rebuild program.

For decades, an engine change at South Amboy, NJ, was a ritual for New York & Long Branch/North Jersey Coast Line trains headed to or from Penn Station. Once the crew conference is complete the Pe... (more)

A four-car set of original Metroliners races south through Princeton Jct., NY, en route from New York to Washington. In late 1971 Amtrak was the operator of the train but the equipment still belon... (more)

The pair of classic rivited ex-PRR MP54 MU cars assigned to Penn Central's Princeton shuttle await the mainline connection on the branchline track at Princeton Junction station.