The crossing watchman has lowered the manual gates for former New York Central RS-3 5527 and its rush hour train at Needham Center, MA, on an August 1971 evening, Because the ex-New Haven Needham ... (more)

The setting could be the Adirondack branch in upstate New York, but it's the Needham line in suburban Boston, where a former New York Central RS-3 burbles towards Needham Junction with an evening ... (more)

A consist of mostly ex-PRR equipment follows ex-PRR E8 4261 to make up Penn Central Boston-Washington train 175, the Patriot, westbound at Mystic, CT, on a summer afternoon.

In the summer before Amtrak, a westbound Penn Central train out of Boston approaches the station at Mystic, CT. All three PC components are represented in the consist of an ex-PRR E8, and ex-NYC b... (more)

A solo Penn Central RDC covering a midday branchline run between Boston and Needham Heights, MA, pauses at Needham Junction, in former New Haven territory. The operator has set the lower quadrant ... (more)

For a couple miles in East Haven, CT, the former New Haven Shore Line resembles a mountain railroad as it cuts through an ancient volcanic ridge with two short tunnels connected by a deep cut. Her... (more)

A pair of Penn Central E8s, the first still wearing PRR tuscan, speed through Guilford, CT, with a Boston-Washington corridor run. A modern Shore Line East station has now replaced the quaint 19th... (more)

A Penn Central GG1 glides into the old station at Bridgeport, CT, with a Boston-Washington train. This NH-era station was a quarter mile east of the current Metro North platforms.

On a fall day seven months before Amtrak would take over, a pair of Penn Central Empire Service trains headed up by ex-NYC E8s meet at the Albany-Rensselaer station.

Trailing a mix of former New Haven and Pennsylvania equipment, a Penn Central GG1 speeds through a tunnel of catenary bridges as it leads a Washington-Boston train through Stratford, CT.

Bound for Grand Central, a former New Haven FL9 speeds south along the Penn Central Harlem Line near Hartsdale, NY, on a summer afternoon. By the early 1970s the original NH nose logos on some FL9... (more)

A pair of ex-New Haven RDCs running as a Boston-Franklin, MA, commuter local smoke their way through the junction at Readville, MA, about 10 miles out of South Station. Two years after Penn Centra... (more)

Bound for Framingham, MA, a Penn Central commuter train departs Boston's South Station beneath a bank of semaphores that dated to the station's opening in 1899. An ex-PRR E8 leads former New Haven... (more)

A Penn Central Silverliner has just passed over a rural grade crossing about 10 miles west of Lancaster, on its way to Harrisburg.

A set of former New Haven Pullman-Standard MUs running as a Penn Central Stamford-Grand Central local swings into the station at Rye, NY, on a winter day. The unique triangular catenary, since rep... (more)