For a couple miles in East Haven, CT, the former New Haven Shore Line resembles a mountain railroad as it cuts through an ancient volcanic ridge with two short tunnels connected by a deep cut. Her... (more)

An E8-powered Penn Central commuter train operated for the MBTA between Boston an Providence pulls into the station at Attleboro, MA, where a good size rush hour crowd will exit. Meanwhile, my fri... (more)

Having arrived from the west on a mail and express train, a quartet of Penn Central E-units (two E7s and two E8s) make their way from Boston's South Station to the Dover Street yard for servicing.... (more)

An evening rush hour commuter train gets underway out of Boston's South Station, with Penn Central E8 4254 in charge of a string of ex-PRR P70 coaches. The signal bridges date to South Station's 1... (more)

Penn Central F7A 721, former Rio Grande 5721. PC bought 10 D&RGW F units, F7A 5721 & 5754 and F7B 5712 & 5733 were mechanically sound and kept for service. The other units were sent to EMD for t... (more)

Penn Central GP30 2203, former PRR 2203, with PC GP9B 3822, former PRR 7197B.

Conrail was a few months old as this Penn Central RS11/GP9 pair led a southbound local freight through the station at Elizabeth, NJ. Both locomotives are ex-PRR, still working in home territory.

An impressive collection of Penn Central power gathers at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, on a Sunday afternoon. The visible models include F7, RS3, RS11, U25B, U25C, and SW1500, and in the dist... (more)

With a cough of Alco smoke, unaltered New York Central RS3 5523 heads up Penn Central local freight BX-1 (Boston-Framingham) on the former Boston & Albany line through Weston, MA. In 2019 this par... (more)

A pair of Penn Central E8s, the first still wearing PRR tuscan, speed through Guilford, CT, with a Boston-Washington corridor run. A modern Shore Line East station has now replaced the quaint 19th... (more)

Penn Central GP9 7549, a former New Haven unit, was assigned to local freight duty out of Middletown, CT, when photographed in April 1971. This boiler-equipped Geep was later among the GP9s sold t... (more)

The yellow number on the cab marks Penn Central S3 9477 as a former Pennsylvania RR unit. It awaited its next job at PC's Beacon Park engine terminal in Boston.

Waning days of the P-motors

An impressive A-B-B-A lashup of former New Haven Alco cab units leads Penn Central train BL-1 past Norwood Central station in suburban Boston. Operating between Boston and Lowell, this job was the... (more)