A weekday local heads south towards Essex behind a J-1 class Mikado.

The Wrentham Local is heading back to Readville after a long day of switching. Night fall is upon us with just enough light to capture the mood.

Ken Patton caught this Boston bound OB-2 on the Maybrook line in Beacon, NY The FA-1 on the lead is followed by an FM H1644 and an Alco RS-11. Shortly after this shot these first generation motor... (more)

New Haven 1222 hauling local freight BX-5. Normally a Framingham, Mass. based train. BX-5 was, for a short time, run Readville, Mass to Needham/ Newton Upper Falls via Forrest Hills on trackage wh... (more)

New Haven 32 leads two other RDC-1's on commuter train 721. This is the second of four afternoon trains on the 28 mile run, Boston to Franklin, Mass. Running late, the first of those outbound trai... (more)

New New Haven Alco C-425s 2554 and 2553 head South Boston to New Haven (Cedar Hill) train BN-1 at Readville Yard. BN-1 reached this yard via the Dorchester Freight line and is about to take the si... (more)

Westbound, Ex-New Haven C-425 and U25B, renumbered Penn Central 2458 and 2681, move from the Shoreline to the Naugatuck route via the east leg of the wye at Devon Tower. Train is enroute to Maybro... (more)

Westbound on the Shoreline at Devon, Connecticut, New Haven FA-1 0418 and two 1200 class GP-9s head for the terminals east of New York City. The FA-1 was rebuilt by Alco Products to 1600 hp. in 19... (more)

The local freight between Readville and Putnam handled the high cars as well as regular online consignee cars. This train is sitting on the original Boston to New York mainline called the Midland ... (more)

A matched set of Alco PA's on the first morning train from New York.

The Cape Cod Canal Bridge at Buzzards Bay was built in 1933 with what you could call government bail out money. It still stands tall as a monument to railroading on the Cape. The train in this pic... (more)

SS 119 is cast in concrete on the side of the former NYNH&H Groton Tower. Built in the early 1920s to standard plans, the brick "pagoda" style tower was the last in active service on Amtrak in New... (more)

One of the ten Baldwin Hudsons built in 1937 for the New Haven RR prepares to work the 155 miles to Boston in c1939. Photographer unknown scanned from a post card size negative.

We were different railfans in the 50's and 60’s.. We had different expectations and poorer film and cameras. Every train we saw we deemed to be the last we would ever see. The PA's were running ... (more)