Canadian Pacific's eastbound Canadian prepares for its four-day journey to Toronto and Montreal from CP's downtown station in Vancouver, BC. A pair of candy-striped FP7s are up front. This facilit... (more)

A former New York Central F7 with its old identity intact gets its face washed at Penn Central's Colehour Yard in Hammond, IN, on a summer afternoon.

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)

From Canadian National's creation in 1922 until its purchase of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton in 1983, the southernmost point on the vast CN system was the Central Vermont's waterfront yard in New... (more)

The Central Vermont's northbound Rocket piggybacker departs Palmer, MA, for St. Albans, VT, behind a GP9/RS11 lashup. This expedited intermodal train ran in various forms over the years, including... (more)

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)

A pair of MBTA PCC cars hum along Centre Street in Jamaica Plain on their way from downtown Boston to the Arborway terminal. This route, the surviving part of which is now the MBTA E Line, was cut... (more)

One of the five ex-PRR E8s that Amtrak rebuilt with HEP capability for use on Northeast Corridor Amfleet consists leads two-car train 153, the Beacon Hill, out of South Station. This was a Boston-... (more)

The conductor looks back for latecomers as a set of former Lackawanna MUs, forty years old at the time, prepares to depart South Orange, NJ, for the Hoboken terminal.

Baltimore & Ohio F7 7052 was a former Chesapeake & Ohio unit that could have used a fresh coat of paint as it posed on the head of an A-B-A lashup at the Benwood Junction yard outside Wheeling, WV... (more)

In the summer of 1969, the Illinois Central leased a group of F7s from the Denver & Rio Grande Western to help with a power shortage. This bright yellow A-B-B-A set was in charge of a northbound I... (more)

A northbound Illinois Central Gulf freight eases off the mainline into Markham Yard, adjacent to the Homewood, IL, station. GP38-2 9622 heads up a mixed string of four-axle and six-axle EMDs in tw... (more)

GG1 4875 hums past the historic station at Newark, DE, with a southbound Amtrak ballast train. This elegant brick station was built in 1877 by the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, a ... (more)

A pair of Chicago & North Western Geeps that could really use a bath have a westbound freight in tow west of Waukesha, WI, on the C&NW's Milwaukee-Madison branch. The GP7/GP9 duo and their crew pr... (more)

A pair of former New Haven/Virginian GE electrics, now working for Penn Central as their class E33, have just departed Enola Yard with an eastbound freight.