Fifty years ago, May of 1968, SP ALCO Hydraulic #9151 led a Pacific Locomotive Association "Truckee Limited" from Oakland to Truckee and back. Held outside of Sacramento on the return tr... (more)

Penn Central train NHSE gets underway out of Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, on its way to Selkirk via Springfield, MA, behind a minimally repainted pair of ex-New Haven diesels, a Century 425 a... (more)

The only Baldwin AS-616 in operation prepares for a long day of unloading stone hoppers at the SMS Stone Yard

My original reason for taking a camera to trackside in 1959 was the stirring sight and sound of a New Haven GP9, making a jack rabbit start on a Needham Branch commuter train. Problem was, the 12... (more)

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)

CNW's only DL-109, 5007A awaits scrapping in the 40th Street Yard in Chicago, IL in 1954. Russ Porter photo from my collection.

One of Penn Central's ex-PRR Century 630s fronts a five unit, three builder lashup getting underway out of the West Springfield, MA, yard ,heading into the Berkshires en route to Selkirk on the fo... (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)

Move over 1943, Here's your UP Lab LOCO! This franken-ALCO was a graveyard smash! It was spotted at the Bluffs in the Summer Of Love prior to being traded in to EMD in '68 for it's own 'monster m... (more)

Industrial Monster TAKRAF ERS-710 is a crawler excavator with superstructure - a real iron monster, with a height of 6-storey house! The German company TAKRAF in Leipzig, speciali... (more)

From 1898 until the terminal's major reconstruction in the mid-1980s, banks of lower quadrant semaphores protected the approaches to Boston's South Station. Penn Central E8 4268 led a Providence-b... (more)

An ex-New Haven Alco Century 425 fronting a pair of U25Bs smokes things up a bit on a westbound freight at Milford, CT. This train, bound for the EL/L&HR gateway at Maybrook, NY, originated at Ced... (more)

With a healthy burp of Alco smoke, an A-B-B-A set of former New Haven FAs and FBs accelerates past South Bay Tower in South Boston as they get underway with Penn Central train BL-1 for Lowell, MA,... (more)

Union Pacific's EMD DD35B's mingle with stored GP9/SD24A and B units on the deadline at Council Bluffs on November 12, 1979. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed... (more)