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)

CP Baldwin switcher no. 7075 shuffles a caboose around at the west end of Coquiltlam Yard east of Vancouver, BC.

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)

An official EMD-GM roster shot of the GM10B during the NMRA open house. An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.

German built Krauss-Maffei ML 4000 CC back on familiar rails in Niles Canyon after a 11 year restoration, Bloody Nose and all.The main engine is out of the locomotive and will under go a complete ... (more)

July 20th marked the debut run for SP 9010 after an 11 year restoration by Niles Canyon Railway volunteers. On a last minute whim I went ahead and purchased tickets to ride on the Pro Railfan Run-... (more)

The blue hour has set in over Strasburg, as the Monongahela Connecting Railroad 701 sits on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

An original Kodachrome slide from my collection; the photographer was not specified.

A workhorse for SMS awaits its next assignment at the Pureland Industrial Complex.

The DL-109, introduced in 1940, was Alco's first production model road diesel, and the last surviving example was New Haven 0716, which had been converted to a stationary power plant and renumbere... (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)

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)

As the afternoon rush hour approaches, half of the MBTA's fleet of 8 ex-PRR E8s have moved from the service tracks into Boston's South Station, where they will split into two pairs and couple onto... (more)