On a summer afternoon, a pair of ancient GE boxcabs head up a train of home-bound commuters at Vertu station on Canadian National's electrified Montreal-Deux Montagnes suburban line. Lead unit 671... (more)

On a long summer evening, an MBTA Boston-Framingham (MA) commuter train rolls west through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany line, powered by one of the T's six ex-PRR/PC E8s.

An outbound GO Transit commuter train passes a VIA switch job at Cabin D outside Toronto Union Station. Cab car 904 began life as an Ontario Northland FP7.

MBTA GP9 7557, a former NH/PC unit, heads up a Boston-Needham Heights commuter train at Needham Junction station during the evening rush hour. It would soon be traded to the Illinois Central Gulf ... (more)

The morning mist still hangs low as Conrail FL9 5041 prepares to depart Brewster, NY, with a Harlem Line commuter train for Grand Central Terminal. Conrail was the contract operator of this servic... (more)

One of SEPTA's last active sets of ex-Reading Blueliner heavyweight MUs lean into a curve as they pause at Swarthmore, PA, running outbound on the ex-PRR Media branch. These cars dated to 1930-32 ... (more)

Candy-striped Canadian Pacific FP7 4074 hums along near Valois, Quebec, on the point of a Montreal-Vaudreuil commuter train. This locomotive would later be sold to VIA.

On a quiet Sunday morning, two pairs of SEPTA Silverliner IV MUs pose beneath the classic trainshed of Philadelphia's Reading Terminal. The trains run through the basement now, but the trainshed e... (more)

The Long Island Rail Road acquired 222 owl-eyed MP54 class MUs in 1909 and 1910, and some survived in service past their 60th birthday. This riveted veteran led an outbound consist of mixed car t... (more)

One of the Long Island's fleet of 30 Alco Century 420s hurries east through one of the local stations in the borough of Queens with an outbound commuter train.

A bit of sunlight makes its way through the Hoboken trainshed to illuminate a pair of hulking GE U34CHs that await their next trip to the suburbs. The 32 U34CHs built for the Erie Lackawanna and l... (more)

Anywhere but Long Island, the sight of a switcher type locomotive leading a passenger train would be an oddity, but the LIRR bought 23 EMD MP15ACs with high speed gearing for commuter service and ... (more)

An inbound Long Island commuter train swings off the Oyster Bay branch and onto the mainline at Nassau Tower in Mineola, NY. Leading the way is "power pack" cab car 620, which began life... (more)

In 1978 Conrail was the contract operator for the New York MTA's Hudson Line service and the standard consist for off-peak Poughkeepsie shuttles was a pair of well-worn FL9s sandwiching a pair of ... (more)

Conrail FL9 5039 heads up a Poughkeepsie to Croton-Harmon shuttle southbound along the Hudson at Cold Spring, NY. The FL9/coach/coach/FL9 set represented the standard off peak consist at the time.... (more)