As dawn breaks, Amtrak's northbound Montrealer rolls into the station at White River Junction, VT, on its overnight trip from Washington to Montreal. The Central Vermont crew waiting on the platfo... (more)

Penn Central's U33Cs were the first locomotives to be delivered from the factory in PC black, ordered by the PRR but arriving during PC's first month. On a winter afternoon, one-year-old 6553 and ... (more)

One of Conrail's ten humpbacked C32-8s leads a GE trio on train SEBO (Selkirk-Boston) eastbound through Ashland, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. Three-unit sets of six-axle GEs ruled the B&A at... (more)

As seen from the now-closed 138th Street station in the Bronx, a Penn Central Harlem Line train bound from Grand Central to Brewster crosses the big bridge over the Harlem River. A pair of ex-NH F... (more)

A westbound Penn Central freight behind a three-builder lashup of two U33Bs, a Century 430, and a GP40 enters the yard at Selkirk, NY.

It's a busy couple minutes at Tacoma Union Station as the Seattle-Portland Mount Rainier, Amtrak train 796, departs southbound while the northbound Coast Starlight completes its station work. Trai... (more)

A former NYC RS-3 is in charge of Penn Central's Pittsfield-Adams (MA) local freight as it crosses the Cheshire Reservoir causeway at Cheshire, MA, northbound on a spring morning. This part of the... (more)

An annual tradition across several decades was the February "Snow Train" excursion operated out of Boston by the Massachusetts Bay Railroad Enthusiasts. The 1969 edition visited the Bost... (more)

Penn Central GP9 7549, a former New Haven unit, was assigned to local freight duty out of Middletown, CT, when photographed in April 1971. This boiler-equipped Geep was later among the GP9s sold t... (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)

Erie Lackawanna U33C 3304 and an SD45 companion have just arrived at Maybrook, NY, with interchange traffic for the former New Haven RR. Penn Central would soon reroute traffic away from this trad... (more)

A pair of Conrail E44 electrics hum through Iselin, NJ, as they approach Metropark station with a northbound TrailVan piggyback train.

An A-B-B-A set of former New Haven Alco cab units storms through Medfield Junction, MA, with Penn Central train BL-1. This job running from the NH's South Boston yard to Lowell, MA, via Walpole an... (more)

The Pinsly organization, like many shortline holding companies, frequently swapped locomotives between its railroads. That's how Frankfort & Cincinnati S4 106 moved from its home in Kentucky to Ma... (more)

The milepost says that Sunday-only Penn Central train 9030 has 127 miles to go to Grand Central Terminal as it departs Chatham, NY, on the upper Harlem Division with a pair of renumbered ex-NH FL9... (more)