Perhaps symbolizing the state of US rail commuter service before the publicly funded revival that began in the late 1970s, the collapsing building in this photo was an active station! It's Silver ... (more)

With more than enough power to accelerate its short commuter train, Southern Pacific SDP45 3208 prepares to depart San Francisco for San Jose on a spring afternoon. In passenger service SP locomot... (more)

In an industrial corner of the old Brooklyn waterfront, Bush Terminal Railroad 80-Tonner 89 advances a cut of cars while one of the BT's primitive GE/Ingersol Rand switchers built in 1931 waits in... (more)

On one of the longest days of summer, Penn Central train #33, the westbound Juniata, drops down into Cresson, PA, after cresting the Alleghenies behind the usual ex-PRR E8. This New York-Pittsburg... (more)

One of each of EMD's 20-cylinder cowl units accelerate Santa Fe train 15, the Chicago-Houston Texas Chief, away from the stop at Joliet, IL, on a hazy summer afternoon. Warbonnet-painted FP45 5946... (more)

A Jersey Central commuter train bound from Newark to Bay Head Junction on the New York & Long Branch approaches the stop at South Amboy, NJ, behind a GP40P. These locomotives were designed for bid... (more)

Within a few months after Penn Central took over the New Haven Railroad on 1/1/69, PC moved some of the NH's dual power FL9s to the former New York Central Harlem Line, where they replaced ex-NYC ... (more)

A U33C and two U30Cs growl west through Natick, MA, on the former Boston & Albany with a Selkirk-bound Conrail freight out of Boston. Conrail was just over a year old and the paint shop had a lot ... (more)

Within weeks of Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, ex-PRR E8s began to take over Boston-New Haven passenger runs from the NH's own FL9s. A year after the merger, sets of FL9s and E8s in thr... (more)

It's a weekend, and the Boston & Maine's main repair shop at Billerica, MA, is quiet as F7 4265 awaits work amid the cranes, tools, and parts that filled the big hall. This locomotive was later pr... (more)

Delaware & Hudson PAs on lease to the MBTA for commuter service meet during rush hour at CP11 in Weston, MA. The approaching train is a Boston-Framingham local behind D&H 16, while an inbound dead... (more)

Former New York Central E8s assigned to Penn Central's version of Empire Service congregate at the Albany-Rensselaer station.

This strange flat-faced machine was one of two unique AB6 diesels built by EMD in 1940 for the Rock Island. Basically modified E6 B-units with cabs, they were designed to run as trailing units on ... (more)

Having traded Canadian Pacific red for Quebec blue and white, MUCTC/CTCUM FP7 1304 (ex CP 4074) and its train of former CP coaches depart Dorval, PQ, for Windsor Station with a morning commuter tr... (more)

A GG1 races north through Rahway, NJ, with a Heritage consist.