An evening rush hour commuter train gets underway out of Boston's South Station, with Penn Central E8 4254 in charge of a string of ex-PRR P70 coaches. The signal bridges date to South Station's 1... (more)

In the middle of the day the concourse of Montreal's Windsor Station is empty, but come rush hour the crowds will make their way to the trains. Canadian Pacific FP7 4040 and a string of bilevels a... (more)

On a summer afternoon, a pair of ancient GE boxcabs head up a train of home-bound commuters at Vertu station on Canadian National's electrified Montreal-Deux Montagnes suburban line. Lead unit 671... (more)

On a long summer evening, an MBTA Boston-Framingham (MA) commuter train rolls west through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany line, powered by one of the T's six ex-PRR/PC E8s.

Looking like a Rutland local of the early 1950s, the Green Mountain Railroad's classic excursion train prepares to depart Bellows Falls, VT, behind RS-1 400.

When delivered by MLW in 1974, Providence & Worcester M420Ws 2000 and 2001 represented the first US examples of the wide cab design (known then as a "Canadian cab") that is now universal... (more)

A pair of Providence & Worcester M420s lead the daily Valley Falls (RI) to Gardner (MA) road freight through Lonsdale, RI, on a hot summer evening. The nose door of lead unit 2003 is open to provi... (more)

An outbound GO Transit commuter train passes a VIA switch job at Cabin D outside Toronto Union Station. Cab car 904 began life as an Ontario Northland FP7.

Looking the worse for wear and nearing the end of its career, a VIA Turbotrain prepares to depart Toronto Union Station for Montreal as train 66. Stopping only at suburban Guildwood and Dorval, it... (more)

Conrail was a few months old as this Penn Central RS11/GP9 pair led a southbound local freight through the station at Elizabeth, NJ. Both locomotives are ex-PRR, still working in home territory.

An impressive collection of Penn Central power gathers at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, on a Sunday afternoon. The visible models include F7, RS3, RS11, U25B, U25C, and SW1500, and in the dist... (more)

MBTA GP9 7557, a former NH/PC unit, heads up a Boston-Needham Heights commuter train at Needham Junction station during the evening rush hour. It would soon be traded to the Illinois Central Gulf ... (more)

In early 1980 the MBTA evaluated a Leyland railbus from England as a possible acquisition for off-peak service on lightly traveled lines. Here the British import poses in front of Amtrak's Attlebo... (more)

A GP9/GP7 duo leads Boston & Maine train WO-1 past the Wachusett Reservoir near Clinton, MA, on the B&M's Worcester-Ayer branch. This train was the B&M's connection between the main line and the s... (more)

On a bright fall day, a pair of Boston & Maine GP9s approach the major yard at East Deerfield, MA, with a southbound train off the Connecticut River line.