An empty parking lot due to repaving permitted this broadside view of Penn Central E8 4322 pausing at Red Bank, NJ, with a New York-Bay Head Junction evening commuter train operated by Conrail. PC... (more)

Once such a common sight, now gone: an end-cab switcher attaches a caboose to complete the makeup of a departing freight. Penn Central SW1500 9557 was working the yard at West Springfield, MA, in ... (more)

A pair of ex-New Haven U25Bs are still on home rails as they lead a southbound Penn Central freight past the old station at Enfield, CT, approaching the Connecticut River bridge.

Passenger service on the Grafton & Upton ended in 1928, but fifty years later the classic country station at West Upton, MA, was still standing. I believe it was being used as an office by a local... (more)

On a rainy spring morning, the Grafton & Upton's daily freight between Hopedale and North Grafton makes its way through West Upton, MA, behind Alco S4 1001. Unlike many small shortlines at the tim... (more)

This was an odd one. From front to back we have a backwards-running Boston & Maine GP39-2, a Maine Central (ex-Detroit Edison) SD40, a Springfield Terminal SD26, and a Boston & Maine GP38-2. The e... (more)

A Boston & Maine GP40-2 heads up a mixed five-unit lashup on the point of westbound freight BASE (Bangor, ME, to Rotterdam Jct., NY) at Ayer, MA.

This looks like a string of abandoned equipment, but in fact it's the opposite. A year before Connecticut's Valley Railroad began operation on a former New Haven branchline, organizers had gathere... (more)

An SD45/SD35 duo is on the point of an eastbound Penn Central coal train at Cresson, PA, on a long summer evening.

The summit of the Alleghenies is just a few miles away but there's still hard work to be done as an SD35/SD45 pusher set shoves on the rear of an eastbound Penn Central mixed freight at Cresson, P... (more)

Washington County Railroad S1 25 makes its slow way along former Montpelier & Barre trackage in Montpelier, VT, hauling a pair of New Jersey Transit commuter car bodies to Bombardier's Barre plant... (more)

As the sun drops low, Bay Colony S2 1052, assigned to the line's Plymouth branch, switches cars at Braintree, MA. The veteran Alco still wore the colors of its original owner, Maine's Portland Ter... (more)

On the final stretch into Chicago, Illinois Central train 28, the northbound Illini out of Carbondale, approaches the station at Homewood, IL, with ten cars behind a pair of E8s.

A lengthy Baltimore & Ohio transfer job behind a GP9/GP30 duo crosses the massive Chicago River drawbridge at Ash Street in Chicago.

A pair of the Monon's distinctive BL2s haul a Clearing Yard-Hammond transfer run through Pullman Junction in South Chicago. The EMD BL2, a late-1940s transitional model between cab units and road ... (more)