A trio of Penn Central E-units led by an ex-PRR E8 accelerate past Bank Tower in Red Bank, NJ, with an evening commuter run. Conrail was the operator of the train but it had yet to make much of a ... (more)

Two of the twelve Budd SPV-2000s purchased by the Connecticut DOT for Amtrak Springfield-New Haven service get underway out of Springfield station. Due to chronic mechanical problems these second-... (more)

It looks like an RS3-powered Amtrak train, but actually it's an empty equipment draft leaving Boston's South Station for the Southampton Street coach yard. Amtrak 106, assigned as the South Statio... (more)

The New Haven Railroad was in its final weeks as grimy Alco FA1 0428 and its mates spent the day at the Dover Street enginehouse in South Boston. The NH's last Alco cab units, often running as an ... (more)

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)

The Monon owned nine EMD BL2s, a strange evolutionary step between cab units and GP7s. Some found BL2s to be hopelessly ugly; I always thought they were kind of neat because they were so different... (more)

Snow is falling hard at New Haven, CT, as the carknockers go to work to connect E60CP 974 to a Boston-Washington train that had just arrived behind an F40PH. The engine change at New Haven was acc... (more)

A U25B/GP38 helper set shoves hard on the rear of a Penn Central coal train climbing the final miles to the summit of the Alleghenies. The uphill tracks are covered with sand from the countless ot... (more)

Diesels have always been banned from New York's Grand Central Terminal, but in the wake of a severe power shortage in 1983, Metro North was forced to borrow E8s from New Jersey Transit and Amtrak ... (more)

In the New Haven Railroad's final summer, a trio of U25Bs lead a Maybrook (NY)-Cedar Hill freight along the Housatonic River at Turkey Brook in Derby, CT. I took this photo from the overgrown righ... (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)

The Jersey Central owned fifteen six-axle Alco road switchers, fourteen RSD4s and a single RSD5, CNJ 1615. They were often found working on the railroad's Pennsylvania lines, where the 1615 was re... (more)

Following the Penn Central merger, PC found a new use for some of its 25 ex-PRR RSD-12s by putting them to work as hump power in former NYC territory. A pair of the handsome six-axle Alcos slowly ... (more)

A pair of Erie Lackawanna SD45s roll an eastbound freight through the yard at Port Jervis, NY, while a switcher works in the background. The oversize auto parts cars behind the power were destined... (more)

Backwards-running Providence & Worcester GP38-2 2008 and a GE mate lead the daily Worcester-Gardner job north on a summer day. Based on my 35-year-old notes I think the location is somewhere near ... (more)