This is the answer to the seldom-asked question, "If an Alco RS2 mated with an EMD GP7, what would the kids look like?". The Rock Island re-engined five RS2s and an RS3 with EMD prime mo... (more)

The conductor rides the front of a Delaware & Hudson GP38-2 as it and its mates prepare to recouple to their train after making a setout at Ayer, MA, on the Boston & Maine.

A Delaware & Hudson RS11 mixes with a Boston & Maine GP18 and two GP9s on the point of B&M train EDSA (East Deerfield-Salem, MA) at Ayer, MA. Looks like the snow is a little deeper out west.

One of Amtrak's first state-supported trains was the Bay State, providing service from Boston to Washington via Springfield and Hartford (the "Inland Route"). Starting up two weeks after... (more)

Having departed the railroad's headquarters town of Hopedale, MA, as a light engine move, Grafton & Upton S4 1001 rolls through the November woods en route to West Upton where it will pick up its ... (more)

An Erie Lackawanna U25B and an F7 take their rest at the Port Jervis, NY, engine terminal on a spring afternoon.

At first glance this looks like a New Haven RR scene, but the four-digit number on ex-NH SW1200 9190 indicates that in 1970 Penn Central is in charge at Maybrook, NY. The empty yard behind it symb... (more)

The head end helper, a backwards-running SD45, has done its work as this westbound Penn Central freight with just a GP38 and a GP9 for road power drops downgrade between Gallitzen and Cresson, PA.... (more)

As the summer sun drops low, a westbound Penn Central freight behind a GP38/U25B duo rolls past MO Tower at Cresson, PA.

With one of coastal Newfoundland's countless fishing piers as a backdrop, Canadian National narrow gauge mixed train 231 coils around Conception Bay at Holyrood, NFD, on a fine summer day. A trio ... (more)

Southern Pacific GP9 3194 pokes its bright red nose out of the shadows of the platforms and into the sunshine after arriving at San Jose with a midday commuter local from San Francisco.

Former L&N FA2 317 has found a new life as Long Island Rail Road cab car/HEP power car 601 as it awaits departure from Oyster Bay station. A GP38-2 on the rear will provide propulsion for the Jama... (more)

With a GP38-2 pushing on the rear, an Alco FA cab car leads a Long Island commuter train a couple miles west of Oyster Bay on its way to Jamaica. LIRR 600 began life as NYC FA2 1102.

In Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Penn Central's CHICK Tower, formerly New Haven RR tower SS185, stood behind Northeastern University in what is now the general area of the MBTA's Ruggles station... (more)

A minimally repainted ex-NYC RS3 leads a Penn Central commuter train that's just out of South Station and bound for Framingham as it approaches Boston's Back Bay Station. E8s and RS3s were the usu... (more)