Amtrak is just a few days away as Penn Central train 427 between Boston and Albany, with an utterly minimal consist of an ex-NYC E8 and a single snack bar coach, accelerates west after clearing th... (more)

It's the night before Amtrak, and Penn Central train #8, the New York-Boston Merchants Limited, has completed its final run under private operation as it stands at the bumper in Boston's South Sta... (more)

A long string of piggybacks follows the GE trio (U33C/C32-8/C32-8) up front as Conrail train TV-6 rattles the center of Ashland, MA, on the former Boston & Albany line. The building in the backgro... (more)

New Haven RS3 534 and local freight NX-15 out of Waterbury, CT, have arrived at Naugatuck, where the crew goes to work switching the Uniroyal footwear plant, a major rail customer at the time.

The wreck train and its crew out of New Haven have just arrived at the site of a 29-car derailment at Shelton, CT, on the NH Maybrook Line and they're ready to go to work. The star of the show is ... (more)

A group of lucky Alco cab units found a second life on Long Island as control cabs for the Long Island Rail Road. LIRR 600, once New York Central FA2 1102, is ready to depart Ronkonkoma station fo... (more)

Late on a summer afternoon, a pair of classic GG1s march into the station at New Haven, CT, with an Amtrak train from Washington. They still wear Penn Central paint, but Amtrak had become their ow... (more)

Still proudly wearing its Pennsylvania keystone, GG1 4891 has just taken over Penn Central Boston-Washington train 175, the Patriot, from the pair of E8s that had brought it as far as New Haven, C... (more)

The evening rush hour is over as an MBTA Stoughton-Boston local coils off the Stoughton Branch onto the Northeast Corridor mainline at Canton Jct., MA. An FP-10 cab unit that began life as a GM&O... (more)

An MBTA Fitchburg-Boston local comprised of an FP-10 cab unit and depowered RDC coaches accelerates away from the station stop on Boston & Maine trackage at Ayer, MA, on a summer morning.

A member of the head end crew is about to hand off paperwork to the agent as his Lehigh Valley train approaches the station at South Plainfield, NJ, on a summer afternoon with work to do here. Two... (more)

Wearing their original colors of grey, yellow, and road grime, a trio of Lehigh Valley Alco Century 420s prepare to depart the big yard at Lehighton, PA, with a long freight. The LV was not known... (more)

In its final weeks of operation, the northbound Ambassador, Boston & Maine train 75, makes its station stop at Bellows Falls, VT, behind an F3/F7B duo (4228/4266B). This was the day train between ... (more)

On a winter afternoon, Boston & Maine GP40-2 311 is on the point of a three-unit EMD lashup on northbound train SPPO (Springfield, MA, to Portland, ME) as it approaches the B&M's East Deerfield, M... (more)

A trio of bright blue GP9s lead Boston & Maine train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) past a frozen pond at Westford, MA, on the B&M's Stony Brook Branch.