The Pennsylvania Railroad once rostered over 500 MP-54 class MUs, a design dating to 1915, but by 1971 newer equipment was coming on line to replace them. This set of owl-eyed MP-54s running as a ... (more)

On a late spring morning, Penn Central RS-3 5230 rolls north through Cheshire, MA, with the Adams branch local freight out of Pittsfield. This section of the scenic ex-B&A branch in the Berkshires... (more)

An A-B-B-A set of former New Haven Alco cab units storms through Medfield Junction, MA, with Penn Central train BL-1. This job running from the NH's South Boston yard to Lowell, MA, via Walpole an... (more)

Backwards-running Providence & Worcester GP38-2 2008 and a GE mate lead the daily Worcester-Gardner job north on a summer day. Based on my 35-year-old notes I think the location is somewhere near ... (more)

With switching the B&M interchange and a coffee run completed, the crew of the Providence & Worcester's Gardner-Worcester (MA) freight boards GP38-2 2006 and prepares to get underway south.

One of the Edaville Railroad's two foot gauge 2-4-4Ts, #8, powers a train around the original 5.5 mile loop at South Carver, MA, back when the line was more a Maine narrow gauge museum than amusem... (more)

A Reading GP30/GP30/GP35 lashup leads a freight through the Western Maryland yard at Hagerstown, MD. The RDG and WM pooled power and crews between Hagerstown and Rutherford Yard outside Harrisburg... (more)

On a winter afternoon, a loaded Western Maryland coal train behind an SD40 and an F7B has stopped outside the yard at Hagerstown, MD, awaiting a clear track.

It took a while for Amtrak to catch up with painting its various secondhand acquisitions.The E8 leading this westbound Northeast Corridor train into Providence, RI, has received its Amtrak 200-ser... (more)

In Amtrak's early days, Northeast Corridor trains out of Boston could be fairly modest things. A Penn Central E8, a parlor car, and two coaches made up this New York-bound train rolling through th... (more)

The final assignment for the former New Haven "washboard" MUs (Pullman-Standard 1954) as they were retired was the New Canaan Branch shuttle, where a pair held down the assignment into 1... (more)

For more than thirty years the face of the PC/CR/MN New Haven line was the rounded end of an M2/M4/M6 class MU, some 346 of which were built between 1973 and 1995. This set running as a New Haven-... (more)

Less than two weeks before the coming of Amtrak would put it out of its misery, Penn Central train 427 rolls west through Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. A single E8 and a snack bar ... (more)

A trio of ex-PRR exotics make up Penn Central's hump job at Selkirk Yard as a pair of Alco RSD-12s sandwich a GP9B.

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)