ex-EL U36C in fresh blue paint leads a pair of ex-PC U33Cs eastbound on the Boston Line in the early days of Conrail

An early Conrail power mix of a patched ex-Reading GP35, an ex-Penn Central U33B, and a repainted RS3m lead a westbound freight under the former New Haven wires at Milford, CT. The train is bound ... (more)

Well-armored Amtrak F40 209 and Conrail C30-7A 6574 compare notes before going to work on a summer afternoon at Springfield, MA.

A long string of piggybacks follows the GE trio (U33C/C32-8/C32-8) up front as Conrail train TV-6 rattles the center of Ashland, MA, on the former Boston & Albany line. The building in the backgro... (more)

A trio of then-new Conrail C32-8s head up Boston-bound piggyback train TV-6 on a late fall morning in Natick, MA. The former Boston & Albany line was the regular home for these distinctive humpbac... (more)

One of Conrail's ten GE C32-8s and a pair of C30-7As team up on the point of piggyback train TV-9 out of Beacon Park Yard in Boston as it swings through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany.

A shiny trio of nearly-new GE C32-8s are in charge of a Boston-bound Conrail freight making a setoff at Nevins Yard in Framingham, MA, as the conductor watches. The former Boston & Albany was a re... (more)

Weekends often saw power balancing moves on Conrail's former Boston & Albany line, which is why this Sunday edition of intermodal train TV-9 had six six-axle units rather than the normal three. C3... (more)

On a fine summer morning, the class unit of Conrail's ten GE C32-8s and its bright blue partners head up westbound intermodal train TV-9 on the former Boston & Albany line at Wellesley Farms, MA. ... (more)

Conrail TV-6 is on the last lap into Boston as it paces traffic on the Massachusetts Turnpike at the Auburndale commuter station in the western suburbs. B23-7 2015 leads a five-unit lashup of four... (more)

Conrail train NHSE (New Haven, CT, to Selkirk, NY, via Springfield) departs the West Springfield, MA, yard behind a C30-7A trio as an SW1500 switches on an adjacent track.

Conrail piggyback train TV-9 rolls west on the former Boston & Albany at Weston, MA, behind the usual GE trio, today a humpbacked C32-8 and two C30-7As.

A Conrail SW1500 pulls a string of loaded piggyback flats off the trailer loading tracks and past the yard office at Beacon Park Yard in Boston. The yard closed in 2013 as CSX moved intermodal ope... (more)

From 1890 to 2013, Beacon Park Yard in the Allston section of Boston was a busy terminal for the Boston & Albany and successors NYC, PC, CR, and CSX. It was closed in 2013 to free up the valuable ... (more)

Boston-Chicago piggybacker TV-9 is underway west though the suburbs on Conrail's former Boston & Albany line at Wellesley, MA. This was once four-track territory to accommodate commuters. The trio... (more)