An ex-NYC visitor in former New Haven territory, Penn Central F7 1774 lays over at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT.

If I had to pick one locomotive to symbolize first generation diesels, it would be EMD's F7, some 3,849 of which were built for service in the US, Canada, and Mexico. New York Central 1783, not ye... (more)

Erie Lackawanna U33C 3304 and an SD45 companion have just arrived at Maybrook, NY, with interchange traffic for the former New Haven RR. Penn Central would soon reroute traffic away from this trad... (more)

Six months after the Penn Central takeover, New Haven U25B 2519 heads up a GE quartet at Maybrook, NY. Within a few years this once-busy interchange point would be quiet as PC diverted traffic awa... (more)

A pair of unrepainted New Haven "Washboard" MUs running as a Penn Central Stamford-Grand Central local hum through the Botanical Gardens station in the Bronx on a winter afternoon. Panto... (more)

The DL-109, introduced in 1940, was Alco's first production model road diesel, and the last surviving example was New Haven 0716, which had been converted to a stationary power plant and renumbere... (more)

A leased Canadian National RS-18 working for VIA Rail heads up a short Montreal-Ottawa train at Valois, Quebec.

As the sun drops low, VIA's westbound Ocean pauses at Moncton, NB, on its overnight journey from Halifax to Montreal. Up front are one of VIA's classic MLW FPA4s and a companion B-unit.

For a couple miles in East Haven, CT, the former New Haven Shore Line resembles a mountain railroad as it cuts through an ancient volcanic ridge with two short tunnels connected by a deep cut. Her... (more)

An E8-powered Penn Central commuter train operated for the MBTA between Boston an Providence pulls into the station at Attleboro, MA, where a good size rush hour crowd will exit. Meanwhile, my fri... (more)

On a quiet Sunday afternoon, a pair of the South Shore Line's heavyweight interurbans wait out the weekend at the Michigan City shops. Built in 1926-27, these durable Pullman-Standard cars would l... (more)

Back when the South Shore Line ran heavyweight interurban cars, a two-car South Bend-Chicago train train departed the streetfront station in Michigan City, IN, on a summer afternoon.

Wearing a coat of winter grime, Delaware & Hudson Century 628 604 heads up a mixed Alco/GE lashup on a westbound Susquehanna Division freight seen near Delanson, NY.

Just underway for New York, the Delaware & Hudson's overnight Montreal Limited pauses at Montreal West station behind looming PA 19. The D&H would handle this train to Albany, where PC would take ... (more)

Having arrived from the west on a mail and express train, a quartet of Penn Central E-units (two E7s and two E8s) make their way from Boston's South Station to the Dover Street yard for servicing.... (more)