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)

In 1970, the regular power for the struggling St. Johnsbury & Lamoille County Railroad's daily St. Johnsbury-Swanton freight across northern Vermont was former New York Central GP9s 200 and 201. T... (more)

This was an odd one. From front to back we have a backwards-running Boston & Maine GP39-2, a Maine Central (ex-Detroit Edison) SD40, a Springfield Terminal SD26, and a Boston & Maine GP38-2. The e... (more)

This veteran Alco high hood switcher, HH660 0924, was the New Haven's oldest active locomotive in the railroad's final year. Built in 1940, it spent its later years working in Boston, where it pos... (more)

Heading literally and figuratively into the sunset, an A-B-B-A set of Alco cabs departs Penn Central's South Boston freight terminal for Lowell, MA, with train BL-1. The locomotives and trackage a... (more)

A pair of Penn Central E8s, the first still in PRR paint, speed the Washington-Boston Colonial through Canton Junction, MA. Following the PC takeover of the New Haven, ex-PRR E8s quickly took over... (more)

A Penn Central Boston-Washington train rolls through the big cut at Groton, CT, behind a pair of ex-PRR E8s, which by the summer of 1969 had taken over the ex-NH Shore Line from FL9s. This cut was... (more)

Former New York Central E8 4093 heads up Penn Central train 427 at South Station in Boston. This two-car train to Albany, where it made a western connection, served as PC's pre-Amtrak connection f... (more)

A three-car VIA LRC set running as an Ottawa-Montreal train pulls into the stop at Dorval, Quebec, in suburban Montreal. The LRC coaches found a long term home on VIA but the bug-eyed Bombardier l... (more)

Between 1981 and 1984 the Boston & Maine joined with the Central Vermont to provide expedited overnight piggyback service between Boston and St. Albans, VT (as a transfer point for Montreal). Mark... (more)

For most of its existence between 1912 and 1995, the Broadway Limited was the premier train on the Pennsylvania RR route between Chicago and New York. Bound for Penn Station on a steamy morning wi... (more)

Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP and B&M) rumbles south through Brattleboro, VT, behind two B&M GP9s and a Canadian Pacific Century 424. Pooled power was the norm... (more)

Shortly after Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, several NH RDCs received this quickie patch paint job in which the NH heralds on the ends of the cars were obliterated with a swath of PC gr... (more)

Amtrak's northbound Adirondack is in the good hands (or wheels) of Delaware & Hudson PA 17 as it rolls north on the D&H/B&M joint trackage west of Mechanicville, NY, on a summer afternoon. An Amtr... (more)

In heavy snow, an A-B-A set of former New Haven Alco cab units plows along on Penn Central train LB-2, bound from Lowell, MA to Boston via Framingham on former NH trackage. This job was the final... (more)