Six months after Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, Boston-Washington train #173, the Senator, emerges from one of the two short tunnels at East Haven, CT, behind an unpatched FL9 and an ex... (more)

It was nice to see that Walter actually caught the National Limited with more than one coach this time. A Walter Schopp original Kodachrome slide from my collection

A Walter Schopp original Kodachrome slide from my collection

I miss the electrified Port Road, perhaps my favorite piece of railroad. The electric motors and catenary were gone before I knew enough to go railfanning down here. Note the two E44 motors in t... (more)

Rainfanning does not look that much fun during a snowstorm. A Walter Schopp original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

A fresh coat of black paint has transformed New Haven RS1 0671 into Penn Central 9946. Along with its caboose it's about to depart Northup Avenue Yard in Providence, RI, to switch downtown custome... (more)

Race Street used to be such a neat place to hang out, with such variety of equipment. A Kim E. Piersol original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

On a winter morning, a pair of Penn Central E44s depart the big yard at Enola, PA, with a freight bound for points east. The lead unit still proudly wears its PRR keystone.

A pair of ex-New Haven Century 425s bracket an ex-New York Central U30B on a Penn Central freight rolling through an industrial neighborhood of Providence, RI. A dead-in-tow Alco switcher and an R... (more)

Flexi-Vans were an early form of intermodal containerized freight handling that was adopted in the 1960s by the New York Central and a few other railroads, utilizing specialized highway boxes and ... (more)

The Pennsylvania Railroad once rostered over 500 MP-54 class MUs, a design dating to 1915, but by 1971 newer equipment was coming on line to replace them. This set of owl-eyed MP-54s running as a ... (more)

On a late spring morning, Penn Central RS-3 5230 rolls north through Cheshire, MA, with the Adams branch local freight out of Pittsfield. This section of the scenic ex-B&A branch in the Berkshires... (more)

An A-B-B-A set of former New Haven Alco cab units storms through Medfield Junction, MA, with Penn Central train BL-1. This job running from the NH's South Boston yard to Lowell, MA, via Walpole an... (more)

Less than two weeks before the coming of Amtrak would put it out of its misery, Penn Central train 427 rolls west through Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. A single E8 and a snack bar ... (more)

A trio of ex-PRR exotics make up Penn Central's hump job at Selkirk Yard as a pair of Alco RSD-12s sandwich a GP9B.