Winter is well underway as an eastbound Penn Central freight led by a GP40 and three U25Bs passes the old Boston & Albany freight house at West Springfield, MA, on its way into the yard.

On a hazy winter morning in the Susquehanna Valley, an eastbound Penn Central freight behind a pair of GP38s approaches the yard at Enola, PA.

Jersey Central RS-3 1544, not yet patched by its new owner Conrail, rolls out of the yard at Elizabethport, NJ, on a caboose hop.

A Newark-Raritan local behind a Jersey Central GP7 kicks up snow as it approaches the station at Cranford, NJ, on a winter afternoon. Conrail has been the operator for eight months but the consist... (more)

Boston & Maine local freight WA-1 out of Waterbury, CT, rolls south along the Naugatuck River at Beacon Falls behind the usual GP9. This train covered freight service on Metro North's Waterbury br... (more)

Amid splendid October foliage, a pair of Boston & Maine GP9s lead a southbound train off the Connecticut River Line into the yard at East Deerfield, MA.

Conrail FL9 5034 heads up a Brewster-Grand Central commuter run passing NW Tower at North White Plains, NY. At the time this was the north end of the electrified zone on the Harlem Line and the te... (more)

Conrail FL9 5059, built in 1960 as New Haven 2059, was the last of the 7,612 F-units built by EMD. It headed up a Croton-Harmon to Poughkeepsie shuttle sandwich at the Garrison, NY, station.

An inbound Norfolk & Western freight behind a GP35/GP9/GP35 lashup makes its way through the massive yard at Bellevue, Ohio.

The ancestor of today's Metra Southwest Service was a single weekday commuter train between Orland Park, IL, and Chicago's Dearborn Station, inherited by the Norfolk & Western from the Wabash. Pas... (more)

For a couple years into the Conrail era, the Chessie System continued to use its ancestral Baltimore & Ohio trackage rights over the former Reading and Jersey Central to run freights from Philadel... (more)

As a Conrail piggyback train rolls by on the ex-PRR, a solo New Jersey DOT RDC running as a Bayonne-Cranford shuttle picks up passengers at the former Jersey Central station in Elizabeth, NJ. Thre... (more)

Conrail piggyback train TV-6 has nearly completed its run from Indianapolis to Boston as it pulls down the lead into Beacon Park Yard behind a C30-7 and two EMDs.

Conrail GP9 7508 leads a short work train through the station at Bridgeport, CT, on a spring day. CR 7508 was a former New York Central passenger unit and it later became Metro North 750.

A year after the nation's Bicentennial celebration, Boston & Maine GP38-2 200 still wears its star-spangled commemorative colors as it meets a flag-decaled caboose (always a "buggy" on t... (more)