From inside the warm and cozy Burnham Tower, a Penn Central passenger train is seen passing by on a cold Chicagoland evening. Penn Central would outlast the tower which burned down in January 197... (more)

In its first month of operation, a westbound Conrail freight passes by Hohman Tower on the IHB with a consist comprising two Penn Central U-Boats bracketing a Reading Century. Tom Golden photo.

PC 2675 sits at the Middleboro, MA yard, on Aug 12 1975. The historic CP Washburn Grain Mill is in the background, sadly it was torn down in 2004.

PC 1772 (F7A) leads EL 7902 (F7B) and Reading 5305 (C630) lead train HB-91 out of the fog at Delware Water Gap, PA, on May 27 1976.

The daily freight from CPR's St. Luc Yard in Montreal to PC's Dewitt Yard in Syracuse has cleared the lift bridge over the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Early Conrail action finds a set of power headed to Bethlehem Engine Terminal after dropping its train next to the steel mill in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Here a clean Penn Central U25C leads... (more)

A westbound Penn Central freight behind a three-builder lashup of two U33Bs, a Century 430, and a GP40 enters the yard at Selkirk, NY.

On a snowy December day, the pair of ex-NH "washboard" MUs assigned to the New Canaan shuttle lay over pn the stub track at Stamford, CT. Penn Central's paint shop hasn't yet gotten to t... (more)

One of the first signs of Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven was the appearance of GG1s in NH territory as the ex-PRR motors were assigned to Penn Station trains. GG1 4923 faced off with a s... (more)

An ex-NYC F7 teamed up with a GP40 on this westbound freight out of Cleveland seen at La Grange, Ohio, on the ex-NYC Big Four route. F-units were common in the area at the time.

Bound for Cleveland, a trio of Penn Central F7s lead an eastbound freight at La Grange, Ohio, on the ex-NYC Big Four line from St. Louis.

A Penn Central EMD 'E' unit that has seen better days sits sidelined near the Mad River and NKP Museum in Bellevue, OH. Due to the short amount of time I had in the Bellevue area, her road number... (more)

RED, WHITE, BLUE AND PC TOO! 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... (more)