On Canadian National's Newfoundland narrow gauge lines, triweekly mixed train 207 from St. John's has arrived at the end of the Argentia branch, where its trio of EMD G8s switch the wharf. Track g... (more)

Near the end of its career, one of VIA's United Aircraft TurboTrains pauses at suburban Dorval, Quebec, 12 miles into its 335-mile Montreal-Toronto journey. The Turbos were mechanically challengin... (more)

On a winter afternoon, the sound of EMD and Alco power hard at work fills the air as an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 lashup grinds up Williamsport Hill with an eastbound Western Maryland coal train. Four more ... (more)

It looks as if Penn Central must have used water-based paint for the logo on E8 4084, which could definitely use a touch-up. The ex-NYC E-unit was assigned to Boston-Framingham commuter service wh... (more)

Claremont & Concord 44-Tonner 31 was working hard as it pulled a loaded boxcar up one of the hills in the street-running trackage in Claremont, NH, that was once part of the Claremont Electric Rai... (more)

Century 420s and RS3s congregate outside the all-Alco Lehigh & Hudson River Railway's headquarters shop at Warwick, NY, along with assorted bad order freight cars. Hard times were coming soon as P... (more)

In 1969 Penn Central still originated and terminated several freights a day in the ex-NYC yards along Manhattan's West Side freight line. As the summer morning sun burned off the night's Hudson Ri... (more)

Near the end of its operating life, one of Amtrak's United Aircraft TurboTrains glides into the station at New Haven, CT, on its way from New York to Boston. Once sufficient Amfleet equipment arri... (more)

On the first morning of the Amtrak era, the Delaware & Hudson's overnight Montreal Limited out of New York crosses the Lachine Canal outside Montreal on its final trip to Windsor Station, with PA... (more)

One of Amtrak's two Bombardier LRC locomotives poses at South Station in Boston before departing for New Haven on train 153, the Beacon Hill. The year-long LRC lease did not lead to any US sales b... (more)

There was once a time when local kids could hang out at small town stations manned by a friendly agent and catch the action. At Milldale, CT, on the New Haven's Canal Line branch, these guys were ... (more)

The New Haven retired the last of its classic EP-4 class passenger electrics in 1961, but three of them remained in storage until 1968, only to be cut up in the railroad's final days. Having been ... (more)

The Sunday edition of Conrail train TV-9 usually ran across Massachusetts with extra locomotives to balance power between Boston and Selkirk. Here a six-unit set of six-axle GEs led by C32-8 6616 ... (more)

In later years the Western Maryland's pair of EMD BL2s were assigned to yard jobs at Hagerstown, MD, paired with homemade slugs for extra tractive effort. WM 82, seen working here on a winter day ... (more)

At dusk, in the summer before Amtrak, the Santa Fe's Chicago-Los Angeles El Capitan makes its stop at Joliet, IL, behind a cowl trio of an FP45 and two F45s. By this time the all-coach El Capitan ... (more)