The brakeman returns to the cab after flagging a grade crossing in Adams, MA, as the daily Penn Central local freight out of Pittsfield on the Pittsfield-North Adams branch rolls slowly into town.... (more)

In Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Penn Central's CHICK Tower, formerly New Haven RR tower SS185, stood behind Northeastern University in what is now the general area of the MBTA's Ruggles station... (more)

Three months before the end of passenger service on the Boston & Maine's Central Massachusetts Branch, the single RDC that comprised the evening commuter run between Boston and South Sudbury plows... (more)

With the Rhode Island state capitol in the background, the engineer of a southbound Amtrak train looks back over the platform during the stop at Providence, RI. In 1986 the tracks through downtown... (more)

Penn Central began revenue operation of the DOT-owned United Aircraft TurboTrains in April 1969. On one of its first runs as PC train 3002 between New York and Boston, a Turbo glides into New Have... (more)

The ancestor of today's Metra Southwest Service was a single weekday commuter train between Orland Park, IL, and Chicago's Dearborn Station, inherited by the Norfolk & Western from the Wabash. Pas... (more)

One of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern's massive Baldwin transfer units, now re-engined by EMD, rattles across the GTW diamond at Griffith, IN, with an eastbound train.

An eastbound Corridor train from Boston has arrived at New Haven late on a March afternoon, and F40PH 203 will give way to an AEM-7 for the rest of the trip to Washington. The angular nose of the ... (more)

Ever since the early 1970s, when the New England Patriots moved from Boston to suburban Foxboro, MA, fans have been able to ride out to games there on MBTA football specials. Here tripleheaded GP9... (more)

A member of the head end crew is about to hand off paperwork to the agent as his Lehigh Valley train approaches the station at South Plainfield, NJ, on a summer afternoon with work to do here. Two... (more)

Two of the three centercab electrics built by GE in 1950 for Canadian National's Montreal-Deux Montagnes suburban line roll through the former Monkland station outside Montreal with an evening rus... (more)

The morning mist still hangs in the Hudson Valley as a quartet of Penn Central E8s hustle a southbound Flexi-Van mail train towards the ex-NYC yard on the west side of Manhattan.

As they had been doing every day since 1930, a set of former Lackawanna heavyweight MUs comes to a stop at Short Hills, NJ, en route to Hoboken. The indestructable 40-year-old cars had more than a... (more)

Back in 1969 I was a little disappointed when the Delaware & Hudson's southbound Laurentian out of Montreal showed up this day at Mechanicville behind an RS3 rather than a PA, but these days I wo... (more)

A set of New Haven road freight power consisting of two U25Bs bracketing a Century 425 has arrived at Boston from the west and pulled into the service pit at Dover Street Yard for fueling. These d... (more)