An evening rush hour commuter train on Canadian Pacific's Lakeshore route out of Montreal pulls into the classic station at Dorval, Quebec, behind an FP7/RS18 duo. Forty years later, the classic t... (more)

The Central Wisconsin Railroad was a fairly short-lived operation that in 1980 took over Milwaukee Road trackage west from Waukesha, WI, to Milton Junction and later expanded. Most of its diesel f... (more)

On a hot and hazy midwestern summer afternoon, the Monon crew has the cab door open for a breath of fresh air as their pair of Alco Century 420s approaches State Line Tower in Hammond, IN, with a ... (more)

A Chesapeake & Ohio transfer job behind GP7 5757 skirts the Indiana/Illinois line as it bangs across the diamond at appropriately named State Line tower in Hammond, IN. The train and I were in dif... (more)

Roughly 70 years ago, one of the Boston & Maine's oddball EMD BL2s leads a North Conway (NH)-Boston branchline local into the station at Conway, NH. The BL2s are long gone but Conway still sees pa... (more)

During its short tenure on the Northeast Corridor, Amtrak's leased Bombardier LRC set departs South Station on a southbound run. Unfortunately the LRC's mechanical performance was not the equal of... (more)

After delivering a mail and express train to South Station, a set of Penn Central E7s crosses the Fort Point Channel bridge in South Boston on its way for servicing. Most PC E7s would be retired ... (more)

With more than fifty years of service behind them, these former Lackawanna heavyweight MUs now employed by New Jersey Transit deserved a day of rest. They were spending the weekend laying over at ... (more)

The last regular assignment for the New Haven's Alco cab units was Boston-Lowell-Boston turnaround job BL-1/LB-2, which took a roundabout route from the NH's South Boston yard to a B&M interchange... (more)

The Lehigh & Hudson River Railway owned thirteen Alco RS-3s that comprised its first diesel era road power. Looking like it could really use a bath, L&HR 4 idled outside the line's Warwick, NY, di... (more)

Boston & Maine train WA-1 (Waterbury to Derby, CT) passes a dam on the Naugatuck River as it makes its way south over Metro North's Waterbury branch. The usual GP9 is in charge.

One of GE's earliest diesels, 1931-built Bush Terminal Railroad 5, works the Brooklyn waterfront back in 1970. These interesting little engines and the railroad itself are long gone, but some of t... (more)

Amtrak E60CP 956 hums through Milford, CT, with a 10-car corridor train out of Boston. The 956 was one of the seven E60s originally built in 1975 with steam generators for use with conventional eq... (more)

Trains PB-99 and PB-100 were expedited piggyback trains operating between Chicago and Boston via the Erie Lackawanna, Delaware & Hudson, and Boston & Maine, using pooled power from all three lines... (more)

Doubleheaded Penn Central GG1s lead autoracks eastbound through Earnest Yard in Norristown, PA, on a misty spring day.