With a classic New England mill building for a backdrop, a southbound Boston-Washington train with the standard F40/Amfleet consist has just crossed from Massachusetts into Rhode Island at Central... (more)

It took a while for Amtrak to catch up with painting its various secondhand acquisitions.The E8 leading this westbound Northeast Corridor train into Providence, RI, has received its Amtrak 200-ser... (more)

In Amtrak's early days, Northeast Corridor trains out of Boston could be fairly modest things. A Penn Central E8, a parlor car, and two coaches made up this New York-bound train rolling through th... (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)

In the mid-1980s, Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains exited Boston via the MBTA Fairmount branch as the NEC mainline between Back Bay and Forest Hills was relocated from an embankment to an open cut... (more)

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 Boston-Washington corridor train behind a burly E60CH swings through a curve at Milford, CT, on a busy Thanksgiving weekend.

Beneath a web of catenary, a northbound Amtrak train behind an AEM-7 emerges from the B&P Tunnel on the approach to Baltimore's Penn Station.

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 the former New Haven Shore Line, a pair of ex-PRR E8s charge through the Pine Orchard section of Branford, CT, on the point of a Penn Central Boston-Washington train. The cinder platform that I... (more)

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.

An eastbound Amtrak corridor train on its way from Washington to Boston speeds through the shore town of Mystic, CT, on a summer morning. Concrete tie installation was in progress on track 1, whil... (more)

As the sun drops low in West Haven, CT, an Amtrak AEM-7 on the point of a Boston-Washington train speeds beneath a bank of the unique stubby semaphores installed here by the New Haven Railroad in ... (more)