After rush hour and the vestiges of the westbound passenger fleet – Nos. 31 and 49, "The Spirit of St. Louis" and "The Broadway Limited" - had departed, freight activity on t... (more)

Penn Central U33C's numbered 6540-6563. (3300hp)

The Penn-Central years were bleak years in many ways, from the appearance of locomotives to the state of decline that so epitomized the plight of northeastern railroading in that time. Nevertheles... (more)

Strange bedfellows

A trio of Penn Central MP54 class heavyweight MUs that have exchanged their PRR tuscan red for PC green hum through Metuchen, NJ, while running as a New York-New Brunswick (Jersey Avenue) local on... (more)

A pair of Penn Central E44 class electrics march south through Iselin, NJ, back when the Northeast Corridor saw heavy freight activity. Delivered between 1960 and 1963, the Pennsylvania Railroad's... (more)

A pair of Penn Central's ex-New Haven/Virginian E-33 class electrics head up a southbound freight at Elizabeth, NJ. Counting Conrail and their brief days under Norfolk & Western, these GE electri... (more)

The pair of owl-eyed MP54 MUs that comprised the Princeton shuttle lays over between trips at Penn Centrak's Princeton Junction station. This short New Jersey branch was one of the last regular as... (more)

Operator Dick Herr is entering information on the Station Record of Train Movements at the 1938 vintage Union Switch & Signal Co. CTC machine governing train movements from Glen Loch through Coate... (more)

As dusk settles over the Berkshires, Penn Central train 427, the nameless successor to the New York Central's New England States as the railroad's overnight connection from Boston to the Midwest, ... (more)

Penn Central train 72, a Buffalo-New York Empire Service run, gets underway for Grand Central out of the original Albany-Rensselaer station behind a pair of E-units. Tired-looking E7 4030 is an ex... (more)

Just a few months into revenue service and doing what it was built to do, a United Aircraft TurboTrain races through Milford, CT, on its way from New York to Boston. At the time the Turbos covered... (more)

At the beginning of the Conrail era PC SD-45 6128 brings the TV-10 into Croxton yard. August 1976

A pair of former New York Central GP40s working in familiar surroundings lead an eastbound Penn Central piggyback train through Selkirk Yard on a fall afternoon.

Following the Penn Central merger, PC found a new use for some of its 25 ex-PRR RSD-12s by putting them to work as hump power in former NYC territory. A pair of the handsome six-axle Alcos slowly ... (more)