Six-axle Alcos weren't especially common on Penn Central's former Boston & Albany line, but they did show up on occasion. Century 628 6304 paired with C630 6328 at Beacon Park in Boston on a sprin... (more)

The early 1980s edition of Vermont's Washington County Railroad made its living moving passenger car shells and finished products to and from Bombardier's assembly plant in Barre. Here Washington ... (more)

Newly acquired Massachusetts Central NW5 still wore its Southern Railway colors as it worked for its new shortline owner out of Ware, MA, in the spring of 1982. EMD built only 13 of these 1000hp l... (more)

A Delaware & Hudson GP39-2 fronts a Boston & Maine (ex-Conrail) GP40 and a B&M GP40-2 on train POPY westbound at Shirley, MA, on the B&M. POPY was the Guilford organization's Portland, ME, to Poto... (more)

Amtrak RS-3 136, a former NYC/PC unit, heads up a short work train at Hartford, CT, with the city skyline in the background.

As the afternoon rush hour approaches, half of the MBTA's fleet of 8 ex-PRR E8s have moved from the service tracks into Boston's South Station, where they will split into two pairs and couple onto... (more)

A pair of Conrail GG1s hum through the station at Elizabeth, NJ, on the point of a southbound freight. Two years later, Conrail would end electric freight operations and these veteran motors would... (more)

One of the first signs of Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven was the appearance of GG1s in NH territory as the ex-PRR motors were assigned to Penn Station trains. GG1 4923 faced off with a s... (more)

New York Central RS3 5258 and the local freight that covered the Pittsfield-North Adams branch approach a cut that still holds traces of the winter's last snow on the northbound run. This part of ... (more)

Headed for their cars in suburban Val Royal, homeward bound commuters pay little attention to the ageless boxcab electrics that took them home from Montreal's Gare Centrale. CN 6715 was built in 1... (more)

Washington County Railroad S1 25 makes its slow way along former Montpelier & Barre trackage in Montpelier, VT, hauling a pair of New Jersey Transit commuter car bodies to Bombardier's Barre plant... (more)

An SD45/SDP45 duo accelerates a westbound freight out of the Erie Lackawanna's Port Jervis, NY, yard on a fall morning. The EL's SDP45s were not built for passenger service, but made use of the lo... (more)

A southbound Delaware & Hudson freight behind an Alco RS36 and a string of GE U23Bs smokes things up through the junction at DJ Cabin in Delanson, NY. The train is on the D&H's north/south mainli... (more)

On the eve of Amtrak, the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio operated three passenger trains each way between Chicago and St. Louis. GM&O #3, the southbound Abraham Lincoln with a 5:10 PM departure from Chicago,... (more)

A lengthy Baltimore & Ohio transfer job behind a GP9/GP30 duo crosses the massive Chicago River drawbridge at Ash Street in Chicago.