These unique RDCs with locomotive-style cabs were built in 1957 as part of a six-car experimental train for the New Haven RR, called the "Roger Williams" and intended for Boston-New York... (more)

Penn Central train 62 between Chicago and New York was the nameless successor to the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and the ancestor of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited. On a hazy summer ... (more)

In its final weeks of operation, the northbound Ambassador, Boston & Maine train 75, makes its station stop at Bellows Falls, VT, behind an F3/F7B duo (4228/4266B). This was the day train between ... (more)

Penn Central was a year old in June 1969 but this scene at Poughkeepsie carried on the New York Central heritage. E8s 4066-4093 have arrived from Croton-Harmon on a commuter train out of Grand Cen... (more)

On January 20, 1984, a predawn fire destroyed the wood pile trestle approaches to the Charles River drawbridge outside Boston's North Station, cutting off access to the station for 15 months while... (more)

Less than two weeks before the coming of Amtrak would put it out of its misery, Penn Central train 427 rolls west through Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. A single E8 and a snack bar ... (more)

In early 1968 the New Haven retired its ten Loewy-style Fairbanks-Morse H16-44s (590-599) and lined up eight of them at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, to await disposition. They would be scrapp... (more)

As the new World Trade Center rises in the background, a Lehigh Valley tug that's mostly hidden behind the second car eases a loaded carfloat into the railroad's Jersey City float bridge. Rail mar... (more)

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)

For the last time, the Delaware & Hudson's overnight Montreal Limited out of New York approaches the station at Rouses Point, NY, as an employee watches. It was the first morning of Amtrak and thi... (more)

The former Boston & Maine roundhouse and service tracks comprising the Boston Engine Terminal stretch out behind an MBTA commuter train incoming from Lowell behind an FP-10. All of the railroad bu... (more)

One of Amtrak's United Aircraft Turbotrains poses at Washington Union Station while working what had to be its strangest assignment, the Washington-Parkersburg (WV) Potomac Special over the B&O. T... (more)

Ice-encrusted ex-NYC F7s depart Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, for the west. The "Low Wire" sign that warned employees of reduced catenary height is now superfluous since PC has remov... (more)

An impressive late-1960s sight at the Norfolk & Western's big yard at Bellevue, OH, was the trios of ex-Wabash FM Train Masters that worked the hump. These massive locomotives had been re-engined ... (more)

A thick winter fog off Long Island Sound hangs over the New Haven Railroad's Cedar Hill engine terminal in New Haven, CT, days after the Penn Central takeover. In the foreground are a trio of EF-4... (more)