Nearing the end of its journey from Chicago, Amtrak's eastbound Broadway Limited sails through North Elizabeth, NJ. Note that GG1 921 bears its Amtrak number but still sports Penn Central worms on... (more)

By the late 1960s several of the New Haven's EP-5 class passenger electrics looked like they had developed some sort of skin disease. Paint-shedding NH 373, seen at New Haven, CT, shortly after th... (more)

New Haven FL9 2044 could use some fresh paint on its nose, but that's now up to its new owner, Penn Central. A couple months after the PC takeover this FL9 pair led a westbound Boston-New York tra... (more)

One of the first "heritage" repaint projects involved Boston & Maine SW9 1223, which was repainted into its original 1952 maroon and yellow colors in the early 1980s through funding prov... (more)

The two RDCs comprising southbound train #2 load passengers and baggage amid the mountains of Lillooet before embarking for North Vancouver.

On a winter afternoon, an unrepainted New York Central RS3 prepares to depart from the big yard at Selkirk, NY, with a westbound Penn Central local freight.

New Haven SW1200 654, not yet renumbered six months after Penn Central took over, exhales and accelerates as it approaches the short tunnels at East Haven, CT. It's heading up train BX-32, the loc... (more)

On its way from Boston to New York, one of Amtrak's three United Aircraft TurboTrains glides across the Canton Viaduct in Canton, MA, on a summer day. These high speed pioneers operated from 1969 ... (more)

New Haven RDC 23, so far undisturbed by the Penn Central takeover three months earlier, hums north along the Naugatuck River at Ansonia, CT, on a Bridgeport-Waterbury run. The diverging track at ... (more)

One of the ten Norfolk & Western (ex-Wabash) F7s leased by the Jersey Central in the early 1970s teamed up with the CNJ's own F7s to create this four-unit lashup at the Communipaw Avenue engine te... (more)

This Penn Central train was basically the pre-Amtrak ancestor of the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited. NYC/PC trains 427 and 428 operated between Boston and Albany, connecting at the latte... (more)

At the end of its 2206-mile journey from Chicago, Amtrak's westbound Empire Builder arrives at Seattle's King Street Station behind an unusual combination of three nearly new F40s and two E-units.... (more)

An eastbound Erie Lackawanna freight off the Delaware Division approaches the yard at Port Jervis, NY, behind an F7/F3B duo. Lead unit 6114 seems to have lost its nose logo somewhere along the way... (more)

As passengers prepare to board for Hoboken, an Erie Lackawanna train from Port Jervis, NY, enters the station at Suffern, NY. An E8 leads a string of old Stillwell coaches that would soon be repla... (more)

Springfield Terminal Railway 44-Tonner #1 conducts interstate commerce as it hauls a propane tanker off the Connecticut River rail/highway bridge connecting North Charlestown, NH, with Springfield... (more)