Just a couple months into Conrail, train BOEL (Boston-Elkhart) out of Beacon Park Yard follows Amtrak's Lake Shore west on the former Boston & Albany, leaning into the curve at Wellesley Farms, MA... (more)

In the first days of a new assignment, Delaware & Hudson PA 18 pulls out of Boston's South Station with an MBTA commuter train bound for Framingham, as one of the MBTA's ex-PRR E8s looks on. The f... (more)

The morning mist still hangs low as Conrail FL9 5041 prepares to depart Brewster, NY, with a Harlem Line commuter train for Grand Central Terminal. Conrail was the contract operator of this servic... (more)

In Amtrak's first summer, Penn Central P2b class electrics built in 1929 and 1930 for the Cleveland Union terminal electrification still powered Empire Service trains south of Croton-Harmon. This ... (more)

A pair of tuscan red E8s present a sight that was common on the Pennsylvania RR in the 1960s, but the scene is in former New Haven territory at Pine Orchard (Branford), CT, and the ex-PRR E8s are ... (more)

The Rohr Turbo running as Amtrak's southbound Adirondack has arrived at Rouses Point, NY, and stopped north of the station for the customs inspectors who are about to board. Once they clear the tr... (more)

The power for the Maine Central's Rockland Branch train lays over at Rockland, ME, yard on a summer afternoon. MEC 332 is an SW7 and mate 334 is an SW9. Later in the day they will power train NJ-2... (more)

A Reading freight with interchange traffic for the Western Maryland heads for Hagerstown, MD, behind a GP30/GP30/C424 lashup. The Reading and WM pooled power and crews on the Lurgan line between H... (more)

Amtrak quickly replaced the ex-NYC electrics that handled Empire Service trains in and out of Grand Central Terminal with borrowed Penn Central FL9s. PC-patched 5001 was on its way north through S... (more)

An ex-New Haven Alco Century 425 fronting a pair of U25Bs smokes things up a bit on a westbound freight at Milford, CT. This train, bound for the EL/L&HR gateway at Maybrook, NY, originated at Ced... (more)

Penn Central Empire Service train 72, bound from Buffalo to New York, arrives at the Albany-Rensselaer station behind a patched ex-NYC E7 and a repainted E8.

With its station work completed, VIA's eastbound Canadian departs Calgary, Alberta, behind a trio of Canadian Pacific diesels, two GP9s and an RS-10. It was not uncommon at the time to find CPR po... (more)

New Haven RS-3 558 rests at Waterbury, CT, in the company of an Alco switcher as it awaits its next assignment. RS-3s dominated both road freight and local jobs out of Waterbury in the 1960s. The ... (more)

In April 1972 this United Aircraft TurboTrain was working for Amtrak, but still wore its DOT paint scheme. Eastbound from New York to Boston, it races through Stratford, CT, under former New Haven... (more)

An ex-PRR Century 630 that still proudly sports its Pennsy keystone heads up a pair of EMDs on a northbound Penn Central freight that's coming off the West Shore route and joining the B&A mainline... (more)