Vermont Railway S4 6 and its short train roll through Proctor on the way way back to Rutland after working the Clarendon & Pittsford trackage around Florence, VT. This Alco was a secondhand acquis... (more)

Baltimore & Ohio 9256 was a boxy Baldwin DS-44-1000, one of 49 switchers of that model on the B&O roster. In the summer of 1970 it was working yard duty at Benwood Junction outside Wheeling, WV.

Baltimore & Ohio F7 7052 was a former Chesapeake & Ohio unit that could have used a fresh coat of paint as it posed on the head of an A-B-A lashup at the Benwood Junction yard outside Wheeling, WV... (more)

Following a February 1978 blizzard that dumped over two feet of snow in the Boston area, the Boston & Maine assigned locomotives to pilot lightweight RDC consists to prevent derailments at ice-pac... (more)

It's momentarily quiet at the east end of the Boston & Maine's busy East Deerfield (MA) yard as GP9 1719 and SW9 1223 await their next job. Meanwhile, a work crew is installing some sort of pipe o... (more)

With a classic New England mill building for a backdrop, a southbound Boston-Washington train with the standard F40/Amfleet consist has just crossed from Massachusetts into Rhode Island at Central... (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)

The MBTA's first F40PH seemed to be a fitting subject for my one thousandth photo on this site. MBTA 1000 was on its way out of Boston's South Station at rush hour with a string of ex-New Haven co... (more)

With the Fort Point Channel drawbridge in the background, a nearly new MBTA FP-10 and a string of leased GO Transit coaches depart South Station for the suburbs during the evening rush hour. The ... (more)

Waiting passengers watch the arrival of Canadian National train 15, the Halifax-Montreal Ocean, at Moncton, NB. Four diesels led by a classic MLW FPA4 cab unit front the lengthy summer consist of ... (more)

The Canadian National amassed one of the largest fleets of Budd RDCs anywhere, with 47 cars of five models, most bought new in the 1950s but some added secondhand. A set of Railiners, as CN dubbed... (more)

Working the South Station switch job, the crew of Amtrak RS3 117 carefully pushes the equipment of an outbound Northeast Corridor train from the Southampton Street yard towards a platform at South... (more)

Amtrak 495, one of five ex-PRR E8s that were rebuilt with HEP to make them Amfleet compatible, sails south through Windsor Locks, CT, on a Springfield-New Haven run. Rebuilds 495-499 were Amtrak's... (more)

Following an overnight snowstorm, the sun breaks through as an outbound MBTA commuter train behind an F40 approaches Clematis Brook in Waltham, MA. The train is bound from Boston to Fitchburg, and... (more)

Five months into the Conrail era, a pair of Jersey Central GP7s lead a Newark-Bay Head Junction evening commuter train past the classic 1876 station at Red Bank, NJ, on the New York & Long Branch.... (more)