The crossing watchman has lowered the manual gates for former New York Central RS-3 5527 and its rush hour train at Needham Center, MA, on an August 1971 evening, Because the ex-New Haven Needham ... (more)

The setting could be the Adirondack branch in upstate New York, but it's the Needham line in suburban Boston, where a former New York Central RS-3 burbles towards Needham Junction with an evening ... (more)

A Penn Central GP40 joins a New Haven Century 425 and two NH U25B's in this power set making a move into the service tracks at Dover Street Yard in South Boston. Fifty years later freight activity... (more)

Back in the good ole days of railfanning when the railroad was four-tracks wide, the signal system was as it should be, manifest traffic prevailed and most everyone was friendly, a GP9 and a GP9B ... (more)

A Boston-Providence commuter train operated by Penn Central for the MBTA passes the old wooden tower at Mansfield, MA, as it slows for a station stop. The engineer's window of ex-PRR E8 4264 shows... (more)

Former New Haven S1 0947 got the black dip paint job that transformed it into Penn Central 9418, but no lettering for its new owner. The anonymous Alco worked a switch job at Cedar Hill Yard in Ne... (more)

A consist of mostly ex-PRR equipment follows ex-PRR E8 4261 to make up Penn Central Boston-Washington train 175, the Patriot, westbound at Mystic, CT, on a summer afternoon.

With four E-units and about four cars, this eastbound Penn Central Flexi-Van train was a bit overpowered as it rolled off the Connecticut River bridge and into the station at Springfield, MA. Usua... (more)

Within weeks of Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, ex-PRR E8s began to take over Boston-New Haven passenger runs from the NH's own FL9s. A year after the merger, sets of FL9s and E8s in thr... (more)

This was probably enough power to get this Penn Central train over the Berkshire summit! An eight-unit mix of EMD and GE diesels drops down into Pittsfield, MA, at North Adams Junction with a Selk... (more)

The engineer and conductor of Penn Central train LP-2 (Lowell, MA, to Providence, RI) confer about the switching moves after arriving at South Sudbury, MA, on a fall afternoon. Three imposing GP30... (more)

A trio of Penn Central U33Cs that now work for Conrail roll west through Natick, MA, on the point of train BOSE (Boston-Selkirk). A year into Conrail an all-PC lashup like this was unusual on the ... (more)

Five Penn Central GP40s march up the Hudson Valley at Garrison, NY, with a northbound freight that originated at the ex-NYC West Side yards in Manhatten. Daytime freights were still a regular sigh... (more)

Five months after Penn Central took over the New Haven, the transition was well underway. Repainted and renumbered FL9 5019 teamed up with an as-yet intact NH sister on a westbound train at New Ha... (more)

Penn Central Empire Service train 72, bound from Buffalo to New York, arrives at the Albany-Rensselaer station behind a patched ex-NYC E7 and a repainted E8.