During its year-long lease to the MBTA, Delaware & Hudson PA 17 hustles west through Newton, MA, paralleling the Massachusetts Turnpike with a Boston-Framingham commuter train.

In its final year of operation, Rock Island train #6, the Rock Island-Chicago Quad Cities Rocket, makes its stop at Joliet, IL. Just two cars trail E8 655. Along with the Peoria Rocket, this train... (more)

Framed by an ornate 19th century building that has seen better days, the crew of a Conrail ballast train led by a GP40 switches hoppers at Westfield, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. A nearby qu... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern freight behind U23C 5204 and a pair of EMDs approaches Cicero Yard past the commuter station at La Vergne, IL. BN 5204, an ex-CB&Q unit, was one of just eight U23C... (more)

Bound for Framingham, MA, a Penn Central commuter train departs Boston's South Station beneath a bank of semaphores that dated to the station's opening in 1899. An ex-PRR E8 leads former New Haven... (more)

A trio of Penn Central E44s march south on the long straightaway through Monmouth Junction, NJ, on the point of a westbound freight. This was still an active commuter stop, but the headless goosen... (more)

Elderly South Shore Line interurbans that have passed their fiftieth year in service wait out the midday traffic lull at the old Randolph Street Station in Chicago. This open-air area was complete... (more)

One of Amtrak's pair of "Roger Williams" RDC cab units heads a Springfield-New Haven shuttle run departing the 1887 station at Hartford, CT. The cab cars were part of a unique Budd train purchased... (more)

Looking the worse for wear and nearing the end of its career, a VIA Turbotrain prepares to depart Toronto Union Station for Montreal as train 66. Stopping only at suburban Guildwood and Dorval, it... (more)

Metro North FL9s in two color schemes head up an inspection train southbound along the Naugatuck River at Beacon Falls, CT, on MN's Waterbury branch. The cars are MN's former Lackawanna observatio... (more)

Given today's crowds on Metro North, it is noteworthy that in the late 1960s, commuter business on Penn Central's Hudson Line was light enough that two-car MU trains were sufficient for off-peak s... (more)

The Springfield Terminal's GE 44-Tonner emerges from a customer's spur in North Charlestown, NH, after dropping off a car. At the time ST #1 was the sole locomotive on this former interurban line ... (more)

The new crew that takes over here is walking towards the power as VIA train #1, the westbound Canadian, makes its service stop beneath the mountains in Field, BC. The lead unit of the A-B-B set, V... (more)

An impressive string of five New Haven U25Bs heads up an eastbound Maybrook Line freight dropping downhill through Shelton, CT. Lashups of U25Bs and Century 425s were the usual power on this impor... (more)

The Central Vermont's last active Alco switcher, S4 8081, posed outside the station at White River Junction, VT, on a fall morning.