The resident pigeons have a great view of the action as Portland Terminal Company Alco S4 1062 works the north end of Rigby Yard in South Portland, ME. Tower PT presided over the Maine Central, Bo... (more)

At home in the Manhattan cavern for which its dual-power capability was designed, Amtrak FL9 486 prepares to lead the westbound Lake Shore Limited out of town.

On its way down the Hudson Line from Albany to Grand Central Terminal on a late fall day, a Rohr Turboliner glides out of the short tunnel at Garrison, NY. The old NYC milepost says it's 50 miles ... (more)

Having made it up and over the summit of the Rockies, the hard work is behind them, and the twin candy-striped FP9s on the point of Canadian Pacific's eastbound Canadian pause with their train for... (more)

Back in the CP Rail era, the eastbound Canadian's scheduled ten-minute stop at Banff, Alberta, provided a chance for passengers to stretch their legs and photographers to jump off for a quick shot... (more)

Late on a summer afternoon, MBTA E8 4254 and its outbound rush hour train pause at Auburndale station in Newton, MA, on a Boston-Framingham run. The locomotive is ex-PRR, the coaches ex-NH, and th... (more)

An Amtrak AEM-7 that has just taken over from an F40 on a Washington-bound corridor train departs New Haven, CT, beneath a bank of transformers that feed the wires from which it's drawing power.

As dusk approaches, the setting sun casts a red glow over downtown Boston while an outbound Amtrak train behind a pair of F40s makes its way towards Back Bay Station, the first stop for all Amtra... (more)

This impressive machine was an Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Baldwin DT-6-6-20 transfer unit re-engined by EMD with new prime movers and EMD switcher hoods. It was making up a train at the EJ&E's East J... (more)

One of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern's massive Baldwin transfer units, now re-engined by EMD, rattles across the GTW diamond at Griffith, IN, with an eastbound train.

Amtrak's westbound Bay State, the onetime "Inland Route" train between Boston and Washington via Springfield and Hartford, speeds through the Wellesley Square, MA, MBTA commuter station on a summe... (more)

Amtrak CF7 583 in faded Santa Fe paint has just pushed an outgoing equipment draft from Southampton Street Yard into Boston's South Station, while F40 228 prepares to depart from the adjoining tra... (more)

Among North America's first HEP-equipped passenger diesels were the six MLW RS18s modified by Canadian National in 1967 for its upgraded "Tempo" service connecting Toronto with Windsor and Sarnia,... (more)

In its early years, GO Transit utilized a fleet of nine Hawker Siddeley DMUs to provide off-peak service on the Lakeshore route between Oakville and Pickering, ON, via Toronto. This two-car set pa... (more)

An eastbound Conrail piggyback train that is about to terminate at the Beacon Park Yard intermodal terminal in the Allston section of Boston makes its way along yard lead adjacent to the Massachus... (more)