After January 1, 1969 absorption of New Haven into Penn Central system, NH power underwent a slow metamorphosis into PC Black paint. Two NH units, a pure GE U25B 2507 and an Alco C425 2452 in PC ... (more)

On a quiet night, New Haven RS-3 521 rests inside the Southampton Street roundhouse in the railroad's Dover Street yard complex in South Boston. Today a modern diesel shop occupies this space.

In the 1960s, Budd RDCs covered all passenger service on the New Haven's Naugatuck Valley branch. Car 22 smoked things up as it departed Seymour, CT, on its way from Waterbury to Bridgeport. A cou... (more)

A long string of the New Haven Railroad's "washboard" MUs led by a coach/baggage combine lays over outside the New Haven, CT, station. In NH days these Pullman-Standard cars from 1954 wo... (more)

On its way from Grand Central Terminal to Springfield, MA, New Haven Railroad train #50 passes the south end of Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT. A pair of GP9s leads a consist that's heavy with h... (more)

A Boston-bound freight headed up by a New Haven GP9/RS11/GP9 trio rolls through the station at Providence, RI, on a spring morning. Only the 7500-series number on the third unit indicates that Pen... (more)

Five miles out of South Station, FL9 2053 leads New Haven train #13, the 42nd Street, through the Forest Hills section of Boston. In the 1980s the tracks here were depressed into a cut and NEC tra... (more)

Just days before the New Haven Railroad was absorbed into Penn Central, a pair of EF-4 electrics swing through Fairfield, CT, with a New York-bound freight. The lead unit's pantograph is down beca... (more)

One of the lead RDCs of the Roger Williams train set sits on display in Lincoln, NH at the Hobo Railroad. The middle units of the five car set were standard Budd RDCs, but the end units were modif... (more)

A month before the Penn Central takeover, a pair of New Haven FL9s pass the night at the Dover Street yard in South Boston. In the morning they will head up New York-bound trains on the Shore Line... (more)

On the New Haven Railroad's final night, in the line's headquarters city, EP-5 electric 371 awaits its next run to Grand Central terminal. The horrible condition of 371's paint symbolizes a railro... (more)

Six months after the Penn Central takeover, New Haven U25B 2519 heads up a GE quartet at Maybrook, NY. Within a few years this once-busy interchange point would be quiet as PC diverted traffic awa... (more)

A pair of unrepainted New Haven "Washboard" MUs running as a Penn Central Stamford-Grand Central local hum through the Botanical Gardens station in the Bronx on a winter afternoon. Panto... (more)

The DL-109, introduced in 1940, was Alco's first production model road diesel, and the last surviving example was New Haven 0716, which had been converted to a stationary power plant and renumbere... (more)

Making the best of sadness. The history of this spot is most famously known for the tragic events of May 8, 1974, when the bridge that now carries the Walkway Over The Hudson used to carry trains ... (more)