In early 1969 the Burlington Route took delivery on an order of 15 SD45s that wore this new color scheme that anticipated the impending Burlington Northern merger. Three of them headed up this eas... (more)

At dusk, Conrail trailer train TV-5 departs Boston's Beacon Park Yard for the west behind a quartet of GP40-2s. CSX closed this yard in 2012 under pressure from real estate developers and in 2020 ... (more)

In the mid-1960s, the Boston & Maine's Connecticut River Line was dominated by GP7s, RS-3s, and the railroad's remaining F-units. Train SJ-1 (Springfield, MA, to White River Junction, VT) passed t... (more)

An impressive A-B-B-A lashup of former New Haven Alco cab units leads Penn Central train BL-1 past Norwood Central station in suburban Boston. Operating between Boston and Lowell, this job was the... (more)

With its paint still fresh and gleaming, one of Amtrak's leased Bombardier LRC sets makes an early morning stop at New London, CT, while running as Boston-New York train 151. The squat little LRC ... (more)

On the day after a major snowstorm, a westbound Penn Central freight slowly makes its way out of Selkirk Yard past some of the snow removal equipment that helped keep things open. A lashup of two ... (more)

A New Haven Railroad 230-ton capacity steam derrick working out of headquarters in New Haven attends to a minor derailment Maybrook Line freight OB-2 along an industrial canal at Shelton, CT. The ... (more)

A Penn Central GP40 joins a New Haven Century 425 and two NH U25B's in this power set making a move into the service tracks at Dover Street Yard in South Boston. Fifty years later freight activity... (more)

Empty hoppers on their way back to the mines roll west out of the Baltimore & Ohio's yard at Grafton, WV, on a summer afternoon, behind an F7/SD9/GP9 lashup.

By 1970 it was rare to find an F-unit in a freight lashup on the former Boston & Albany. Here an unusual GP40/F7B/SD35 combination approaches Boston's Beacon Park Yard on the point of an eastboun... (more)

A minimally repainted ex-NYC RS3 leads a Penn Central commuter train that's just out of South Station and bound for Framingham as it approaches Boston's Back Bay Station. E8s and RS3s were the usu... (more)

The Seattle & North Coast RR was a short-lived (1980-1984) shortline that operated former Milwaukee Road trackage on Washington's Olympic Penninsula, with a carfloat connection to the rest of the ... (more)

This hard-working machine, MBTA 3626, was a side-dump trolley work car used to haul ballast and dirt for track maintenance. It had an incredibly long service life. It was built by the Differential... (more)

Three of the Jersey Central's nine SD40s await their next job at the CNJ/RDG engine terminal at Bethlehem, PA, on a spring day. The CNJ's austerity paint scheme was somewhat less than flashy.

Four silver E-units should be enough power to keep Burlington Northern train 31, the Empire Builder, moving at track speed on the first leg of its Chicago-Seattle journey as they accelerate past t... (more)