The final switcher model offered by Alco was the 1000 hp T-6. Only 55 were built, six of which went to the Pennsylvania RR and on to Penn Central. As the sun came up on a late winter morning, PC 9... (more)

Penn Central E8 4321 rusts away on a side track in Bellevue.

I don't recall my father telling me that he photographed the RFK funeral train, but when I found this photo in his collection, I knew exactly what it was.

New York bound shore train. There's a brand new MGB GT waiting at the 7th Ave crossings. Also note the S.S. Adams factory with its clock tower.

A former New Haven RDC now wearing Penn Central scare stripes glides along the Naugatuck River at Beacon Falls, CT, en route from Waterbury to Bridgeport. Budds covered all passenger service on th... (more)

A quartet of owl-eyed Pennsylvania Railroad MP54 class heavyweight MUs, the first repainted from traditional tuscan red to PC dark green, rolls though the PATH station in Harrison, NJ, minutes out... (more)

This Penn Central freight out of Selkirk Yard was southbound at Beacon, NY, on a summer afternoon, about to diverge from the Hudson Line onto the former New Haven Beacon Branch in order to head ea... (more)

A westbound freight on Penn Central's ex-New Haven Maybrook Line climbs the hill at Stevenson, CT, behind a mix of four axle and six axle GEs. The lead unit, PC U25B 2685, is the former NH 2525, t... (more)

In 1969 Penn Central still originated and terminated several freights a day in the ex-NYC yards along Manhattan's West Side freight line. As the summer morning sun burned off the night's Hudson Ri... (more)

Penn Central train 62 between Chicago and New York was the nameless successor to the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and the ancestor of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited. On a hazy summer ... (more)

Freight action on the Northeast Corridor finds an RS-11 powered local passing a freight that's about to enter Waverly Yards in Newark. PC 7627 was built in 1957 and was retired within a year of C... (more)

On a hazy summer morning two years before Amtrak, Penn Central train 81 between New York and Albany comes off the Harlem River lift bridge and enters the Bronx behind an ancient-looking P2b electr... (more)

In Amtrak's first summer, Penn Central P2b class electrics built in 1929 and 1930 for the Cleveland Union terminal electrification still powered Empire Service trains south of Croton-Harmon. This ... (more)

Penn Central FA1 1333, formerly New Haven 0428, was one of PC's last four active Alco cab units along with three ex-NH mates, and it worked in home territory until the end. Minimally repainted in ... (more)

When New York Central 41788 was built in the Despatch Shops at East Rochester, New York and began service in 1956 it was used as an automobile hauler before today’s multi-level auto racks were f... (more)