Amtrak's Fast Mail was the mail and package express train that operated overnight between Boston and Washington. With a string of baggage cars and a single Amcoach behind its F40, southbound #13 p... (more)

The faint trace of a New York Central cigar band logo on the nose of otherwise unlettered Conrail E8 4324 marks it as one of the ex-NYC E-units that were renumbered and equipped with PRR-style cab... (more)

Three Maine Central U-Boats, all acquired secondhand, will be working uphill as they depart Gardner, MA, with Boston & Maine train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC). Lead unit ... (more)

Central Vermont GP9 4558 and its mates take on fuel in the Boston & Maine yard at Springfield, MA, after arriving from St. Albans, VT, on CV/B&M pool train CVSP. At the time the B&M pooled power o... (more)

As the sun comes up, Illinois Central's northbound Panama Limited races through Gilman, IL, on its overnight journey from New Orleans to Chicago. Sixteen cars trail the trio of E-units up front, w... (more)

With the massive Fort Point Channel drawbridge as a background, EMD-engined Amtrak RS3m 106 heads for South Station to grab an arriving equipment draft, which it will pull back to the Southampton ... (more)

Passing rows of stored boxcars, a former New Haven RS-3 renumbered and now working for Penn Central pulls a transfer cut from the hump into the westbound departure yard at Cedar Hill Yard in New H... (more)

On a rainy November afternoon, Canadian National train 35, the Montreal-Toronto Bonaventure, rattles the old brick station at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, as it speeds west behind a pair of MLW ... (more)

With a single empty boxcar in tow, Claremont & Concord 44-Tonner 31 departs the C&C's yard in downtown Claremont, NH, for the Boston & Maine interchange at Claremont Junction, three miles away. Th... (more)

On a cold winter morning in Boston, the GP9s and RDCs that brought New Haven Railroad commuters in from the suburbs gather at Dover Street Yard in South Boston amid clouds of train heating steam.... (more)

The last passenger service on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie was a single weekday commuter train between Pittsburgh's P&LE Station and College station in Beaver Falls, PA, that lasted into the 1980s. ... (more)

Lehigh & Hudson River Century 420 29 and its RS3 mate fuel up at the railroad's Warwick, NY, headquarters. It looks like it could use a bath!

A three-car set of former Reading RDCs bound for Reading Terminal in Philadelphia loads passengers under the trainshed of Penn Station in Newark, NJ, as a Jersey Central train pulls in on the adj... (more)

Back when Pittsbugh's P&LE station was a station rather than a restaurant, Baltimore & Ohio train 8, the Shenandoah, gets underway for Washington behind E8 1465, a former C&O unit. This was the pr... (more)

As dusk falls on a hot and hazy day, an Erie Lackawanna SD45 fronts three other EMDs on an eastbound freight at Hammond, IN.