One of each of EMD's 20-cylinder cowl units accelerate Santa Fe train 15, the Chicago-Houston Texas Chief, away from the stop at Joliet, IL, on a hazy summer afternoon. Warbonnet-painted FP45 5946... (more)

An impending thunderstorm has darkened a hot August evening as Santa Fe train 17, the westbound Super Chief, glides into Joliet Union Station past waiting passengers. With a five-unit lashup of F7... (more)

A pair of Conrail GG1s hum through the station at Elizabeth, NJ, on the point of a southbound freight. Two years later, Conrail would end electric freight operations and these veteran motors would... (more)

An SD45 and a pair of GP40-2s accelerate a southbound Conrail freight through the station at North Elizabeth, NJ, on a spring morning.

In the late 1960s/early 70s, Brooklyn's Bush Terminal Railroad was known as the home of some of GE's first diesels, a group of seven 60-ton, 300hp mini-hood units built in 1931 that turned out to ... (more)

One of GE's earliest diesels, 1931-built Bush Terminal Railroad 5, works the Brooklyn waterfront back in 1970. These interesting little engines and the railroad itself are long gone, but some of t... (more)

On a misty fall morning, a former New Haven RDC now sporting Metro North colors has just departed from the Dover Plains, NY, station in the background, bound for Brewster and a Grand Central conne... (more)

Shortly after Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, several NH RDCs received this quickie patch paint job in which the NH heralds on the ends of the cars were obliterated with a swath of PC gr... (more)

On a winter afternoon, the sound of EMD and Alco power hard at work fills the air as an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 lashup grinds up Williamsport Hill with an eastbound Western Maryland coal train. Four more ... (more)

All four of the Western Maryland's Alco cabs team up to push an eastbound coal train up the hill between Williamsport and Hagerstown, MD. This pusher job was a regular assignment for the WM's FA2s... (more)

The setting sun cast a red glow as a pair of Amtrak/CDOT SPVs out of Springfield, MA, eased up to their mainline connection at New Haven station, where passengers will transfer for New York and po... (more)

In honor of the start of the baseball season, here's a farewell look at what was one of the best-ever places for simultaneous train and baseball watching, Harbor Yards in Bridgeport, CT. The Bridg... (more)

A pair of Rock Island RS3s thunk across the diamond at Pullman Junction on the South Side of Chicago with a transfer run back in 1969. This was a great place for train-watching for this East Coast... (more)

Rock Island Century 415 419 works a yard job somewhere around the South Side of Chicago late on a summer afternoon. I always found these centercab Alcos to be pretty neat, but unfortunately the mo... (more)

From Canadian National's creation in 1922 until its purchase of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton in 1983, the southernmost point on the vast CN system was the Central Vermont's waterfront yard in New... (more)