At dusk, a United Aircraft TurboTrain races through Milford, CT, as it makes its way from Grand Central Terminal to Boston as Penn Central train 3002. This was the original three-car configuration... (more)

Six months after Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, Boston-Washington train #173, the Senator, emerges from one of the two short tunnels at East Haven, CT, behind an unpatched FL9 and an ex... (more)

Three years after the last train rolled here, nature is beginning to take over the abandoned Central Massachusetts Branch of the Boston & Maine in Waltham, MA. The line was railbanked by the MBTA ... (more)

On a winter afternoon, Boston & Maine train MEPO (Mechanicville, NY, to Portland, ME) makes its setout in the yard at Lawrence, MA. GP38-2 207 leads a mixed set of -38s and -40s.

Boston & Maine GP9 1707 and F3 4228 peer out the back doors of the shop building at the B&M's Boston Engine Terminal in East Cambridge, MA. At the time the 4228 was the railroad's last surviving F... (more)

A fresh coat of black paint has transformed New Haven RS1 0671 into Penn Central 9946. Along with its caboose it's about to depart Northup Avenue Yard in Providence, RI, to switch downtown custome... (more)

On a winter morning, a pair of Penn Central E44s depart the big yard at Enola, PA, with a freight bound for points east. The lead unit still proudly wears its PRR keystone.

A pair of ex-New Haven Century 425s bracket an ex-New York Central U30B on a Penn Central freight rolling through an industrial neighborhood of Providence, RI. A dead-in-tow Alco switcher and an R... (more)

The rush hour is over, the sun is setting, and this Fitchburg-bound MBTA commuter train has to itself the platforms at Boston's North Station.

An outbound MBTA commuter train rolls through the Hyde Park section of Boston on the Fairmount line behind an F40. At the time all trains on the MBTA's ex-New Haven lines took this alternate route... (more)

A westbound Erie Lackawanna freight behind an SD45/SDP45 lashup prepares to depart Port Jervis, NY, for a run up the Delaware Valley. The EL bought a batch of SDP45s minus passenger steam boilers ... (more)

On a quiet weekend morning, Erie Lackawanna RS-3 952 and assorted coaches await the Monday rush hour in the small layover yard at suburban Spring Valley, NY.

Late in the era of steam-heated passenger trains, MBTA E8 4264 pops off while waiting to depart Boston's South Station with a Framingham local.

During the year that Conrail was the contract operator of the MBTA's South Side commuter service, a couple Conrail-owned ex-NYC E8s usually supplemented the MBTA's own ex-PRR Es. On the final week... (more)

Flexi-Vans were an early form of intermodal containerized freight handling that was adopted in the 1960s by the New York Central and a few other railroads, utilizing specialized highway boxes and ... (more)