Glow Worm at Night NS 1072, the Illinois Terminal heritage unit, sits near the Juniata Backshop turntable with AC-to-DC AC44C6M #4005. This unit has since been rebuilt and repainted, and i... (more)

Winter is Coming Nearly 5 years ago- MBTA outbound train 515, running a few minutes behind schedule, coasts through the snow near milepost 15 on the Worcester Main Line. During this era, t... (more)

Push-Pull SEPTA Regional Rail operations mostly consist of electric multiple-units, but select rush-hour express trains utilize push-pull sets with Comet cars and ACS-64 electrics. SEPTA's... (more)

Safety Stripes On the morning of August 9th, 2024, the MBTA ran its two Precision Locomotive Leasing Services units to the Fore River Railroad for an extremely short-term lease. With its t... (more)

Amtrak's Finest Penn Coach Yard always features a plethora of equipment. From left to right: NextGen Acela trainsets prior to entering service, an ALC-42 awaiting conditional acceptance, a... (more)

Snow Day NS 597 pulls up to ANTIS interlocking with NS 1070, the Wabash heritage unit leading.

Day One Amtrak ALC-42 #301, the "Day One" heritage unit, was painted in an identical scheme to E8A #4316, which was hastily painted into this one-off livery for the first day of ... (more)

Phase III Lives On Phase III Amtrak NPCU #90406 leads a Downeaster to Boston. This NPCU was originally repainted for the exhibit train in 2011 (Amtrak's 40th anniversary) and has since bee... (more)

Relics Fore River Transportation is the only operator of GE Dash 7 locomotives in New England, and one of only a handful in the country. On August 9th, 2024, the Fore River welcomed PNLX 2... (more)

The Past or the Future? RSTX 1002 is the first of 6 F40PH-4Cs leased to the MBTA by Rolling Stock Solutions, a Boston-based startup that remanufactures ex-Amtrak F40s to offer commuter rai... (more)

The Last RDC from Boston On the morning of January 6th, 2024, the MBTA ran a work train to move two pieces of vintage equipment from a siding at FX Interlocking near the BET to the new dis... (more)

Far From Home NS 5260 is a GP38-2 that wears a commemorative paint scheme for the Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad in Virginia. Here in Altoona, it's being rebuilt, and it's anyon... (more)

Timeless Providence and Worcester WODA (Worcester, MA to Davisville, RI) makes its way over the Blackstone River. Though it's usually an overnight train, track work on the Northeast Corrid... (more)

Blank Slate FMWX 8524, a B39-8, arrived on the Everett Railroad in the Spring of 2025, seemingly to replace its former NS B32-8 #561 that was sold off to the Western Maryland Scenic.

All-Nighter in Worcester Around 4 in the morning, CSX P950, an ACSES-PTC test train, rolls past the temporary platform at Worcester Union Station. This train ran a few times on the west en... (more)