The local freight between Readville and Putnam handled the high cars as well as regular online consignee cars. This train is sitting on the original Boston to New York mainline called the Midland ... (more)

GP9 B uints were rare in most parts of the country. On the Penn Central in Providence they would show up at several times a month. The GP30 on the left now resides at the Pennsylvania Railroad Mus... (more)

The big GE power of 1973 on light freight in mid winter.

Puffs of compression smoke fill the skies as the engineer notches out his power after getting a high green at the beginning of the siding called Rice’s.

First generation muscle pulling hard through the New River Valley.

Eastbound mixed freight meets westbound coal on the mile long Ohio River Bridge. The old Union Station elevator tower stands on the left. In the halcyon days of passenger service this station serv... (more)

Two Montreal engines have CP 903 well in hand running beside the Connecticut River just North of White River Junction. For more FA units more)

Day after day the same group of locomotives showed up at Attleboro. They were either u-boats or GP9s still wearing PC colors hauling for Conrail. Notice Amtrak sneaking up beside headed for Boston... (more)

Towers always catch my attention and so do GP30s. The B&O owned a large number of GP30s and liked them so well it kept them running right through the creation of CSX. Bad lighting or not I had no ... (more)

This beautiful circus engine was running out its last few years working on the B&O as part of the new Chessie System. The miracle is that the paint job lasted longer than the original number.The o... (more)

Penn Central photographic Perfection. BX-29 is creeping past the tower after completing work at Mansfield and Attleboro. Conrail is less than a year away and some original New Haven u-boats still ... (more)

This SDP was not your father's E unit. EMD was making a clean break from the original art deco inspired cab unit shape. This was to be the new cab unit shape that would last 25 years in the SDP40F... (more)

The Westbound "Canadian" stopping at Dorval while enroute to the Pacific Coast. When I was ten I had a friend who had a whole basement full of Lionel Trains. That was where I saw the Canadian Paci... (more)