The crew of a Conrail GP38 makes a switching move at Nevins Yard in Framingham, MA, while an eastbound freight led by a B23-7 waits for them to clear in order to yard the train.

On a hazy summer morning two years before Amtrak, Penn Central train 81 between New York and Albany comes off the Harlem River lift bridge and enters the Bronx behind an ancient-looking P2b electr... (more)

In Amtrak's first summer, Penn Central P2b class electrics built in 1929 and 1930 for the Cleveland Union terminal electrification still powered Empire Service trains south of Croton-Harmon. This ... (more)

The end was approaching for passenger service on the Boston & Maine's Central Massachusetts Branch as a solo RDC making an afternoon trip to Boston loaded passengers at the South Sudbury, MA, stat... (more)

As the sun drops low, EMD-engined Amtrak RS3M 106 shepherds an outbound equipment draft between Boston's Southampton Street coach yard and South Station. The South Station switch job was the regul... (more)

A construction-related weekend power outage on Metro North's New Haven Line led to this sight of an HEP-equipped Amtrak E8 towing a pantographs-down AEM7 and its Washington-bound train through Mil... (more)

A northbound Illinois Central Gulf freight eases off the mainline into Markham Yard, adjacent to the Homewood, IL, station. GP38-2 9622 heads up a mixed string of four-axle and six-axle EMDs in tw... (more)

An Illinois Central Gulf coal train headed up by SD20 2028 pauses at Homewood, IL, while the crew of a Sperry car inspects the adjoining track. ICG 2028 was a hybrid unit that had been rebuilt fro... (more)

Penn Central FA1 1333, formerly New Haven 0428, was one of PC's last four active Alco cab units along with three ex-NH mates, and it worked in home territory until the end. Minimally repainted in ... (more)

The Jersey Central owned thirteen six-axle Alco RSD4s, and a regular assignment for a pair of them in later years was the hump switcher job at the CNJ/RDG Allentown, PA, yard. CNJ 1611-1608 paused... (more)

Amid the fall foliage, the crew of a Boston & Maine SW9 wait for the signal to enter the East Deerfield, MA, yard off the "loop" connection to the Connecticut River line.

As a track crew attends to a switch frog on splendid fall day, Boston & Maine train SPCP (Springfield, MA, to Newport, VT, via B&M/CP) departs the B&M's major yard at East Deerfield, MA, to contin... (more)

In 1970, the regular power for the struggling St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County Railroad's daily St. Johnsbury-Swanton freight across northern Vermont was former New York Central GP9s 200 and 201. T... (more)

Grinding uphill at perhaps 10 mph, the daily westbound freight of the St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County crosses a country road near West Danville, VT. Former NYC GP9s 200 and 201 are a long way from... (more)

The Boston section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited gets underway out of South Station. It's headed for Albany and its Chicago connection beneath the semaphores that were a distinctive part of South... (more)