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)

This impressive machine was an Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Baldwin DT-6-6-20 transfer unit re-engined by EMD with new prime movers and EMD switcher hoods. It was making up a train at the EJ&E's East J... (more)

A trio of Penn Central SD9s, representing a rare lashup for this part of the railroad, accelerate a southbound freight through North Elizabeth, NJ. These husky EMDs of Pennsylvania heritage were l... (more)

This RDC was about to undergo a face transplant. After Boston & Maine RDC-1 6117 suffered some sort of misfortune, the B&M's Billerica shop crews repaired it with a fresh cab end salvaged from scr... (more)

A Milwaukee Road transfer run in the care of a Fairbanks-Morse H-16-44 rolls off the Chicago River drawbridge and approaches the multiple diamonds at Ash Street in Chicago.

Back in 1980 I worked for an industrial instrumentation company that sometimes sent me on field trips to get customer feedback. One of our customers was Canadian National, which meant a chance to ... (more)

An Amtrak work train behind an RS-3 gets attention from its crew outside Providence Union Station in the Rhode Island capitol. The 1898 station in the background was replaced by the current Amtrak... (more)

Waiting passengers watch the arrival of Canadian National train 15, the Halifax-Montreal Ocean, at Moncton, NB. Four diesels led by a classic MLW FPA4 cab unit front the lengthy summer consist of ... (more)

Six months after the Penn Central takeover, New Haven U25B 2519 heads up a GE quartet at Maybrook, NY. Within a few years this once-busy interchange point would be quiet as PC diverted traffic awa... (more)

In its first weeks of revenue service for Penn Central, a United Aircraft TurboTrain that still wears its original DOT colors speeds through the station at Stratford, CT, bound for Grand Central T... (more)

During the MBTA's short-lived service extension to Gardner, MA, GP9 1925 (ex-BN/NP) leads a train of depowered RDCs making the turn back to Boston. Note that the first two Budds are ex-CP cars al... (more)

Canadian National 802 was one of six 42" gauge EMD G8s built in 1956 for CN's Newfoundland narrow gauge lines. These 875hp units were usually found on the light-rail branch lines on the east ... (more)

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)

On the New Haven Railroad's final night, in the line's headquarters city, EP-5 electric 371 awaits its next run to Grand Central terminal. The horrible condition of 371's paint symbolizes a railro... (more)

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio E7 102, on the point of train #3, the Chicago-St. Louis Abraham Lincoln, steps across the Rock Island diamonds at Joliet, IL.