On a bleak spring day fifty years ago, a Lehigh Valley switch crew and their SW8 "pup" work Richards Yard at Easton, PA, as a westbound freight behind a pair of Century 628s (led by the appropriat... (more)

The Wolfeboro Railroad was an excursion line that from 1972 to 1985 operated the former Boston & Maine branch between Sanbornville and Wolfeboro, NH. In the line's final summer of operation, the W... (more)

In the early 1980s, Boston & Maine train WA-1 provided freight service on Metro North's Waterbury branch between Waterbury and Derby, CT. GP9 1707 was in charge this day as WA-1 headed north acros... (more)

With pantographs reaching high, a pair of Penn Central E44s hum through Earnest Yard in Norristown, PA, with an eastbound freight on the Trenton Cut-Off.

Six months into Conrail, an unpatched Penn Central (ex-NH) Alco RS-11, a couple boxcars, and a caboose make up a compact local freight preparing to depart Hopewell Jct., NY, on the former NH Maybr... (more)

One of Alco's rarest locomotives was the 800 hp S-5 switcher. Only seven were built, and the Boston & Maine had six of them. Sharp-looking B&M 863 pushed cars over the Boston freight yard hump at ... (more)

Pioneer Valley SW1 27 clatters across the Conrail diamond at Westfield, MA, a few days after the railroad's startup. The 43-year-old switcher is on former New Haven trackage, crossing the former B... (more)

Silhouetted by its own cloud of smoke, a westbound Boston & Maine freight led by a GP39-2 and three mates accelerates through Greenfield, MA, as it begins its climb of the Berkshires.

Trailing a mix of former New Haven and Pennsylvania equipment, a Penn Central GG1 speeds through a tunnel of catenary bridges as it leads a Washington-Boston train through Stratford, CT.

The departing passengers look eager to board as a westbound Amtrak corridor train pulls into the station at Old Saybrook, CT. Long before high level platforms and such, it was routine for westboun... (more)

When they proved unreliable in intercity service on the New Haven-Springfield line, the Budd SPV-2000s purchased by Connecticut DOT for Amtrak worked briefly for Metro North in branchline service ... (more)

Six years after Amtrak concluded an unsuccessful evaluation of Bombardier's LRC equipment, a VIA LRC set showed up in Boston's South station as part of a high speed rail demonstration sponsored by... (more)

Penn meets Central as E8s gather on the service tracks at Penn Central's Beacon Park Yard in Boston. The ex-NYC unit is in nice shape but its ex-PRR neighbor is shedding paint and might benefit fr... (more)

Northern Ohio was the final home for many of Conrail's inherited F-units. This trio of ex-NYC F7s headed up a westbound freight at Collinwood Yard outside Cleveland.

Alco meets EMD as the Delaware & Hudson's southbound Laurentian from Montreal arrives at the Albany-Rensselaer station behind PA 19, while Penn Central E8 4051 stands by on an Empire Service assig... (more)