An eastbound Burlington Northern freight behind U23C 5204 and a pair of EMDs approaches Cicero Yard past the commuter station at La Vergne, IL. BN 5204, an ex-CB&Q unit, was one of just eight U23C... (more)

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)

Northern Ohio was the final home for many of Conrail's inherited F-units. This trio of ex-NYC F7s headed up a westbound freight at Collinwood Yard outside Cleveland.

A bit of sunlight makes its way through the Hoboken trainshed to illuminate a pair of hulking GE U34CHs that await their next trip to the suburbs. The 32 U34CHs built for the Erie Lackawanna and l... (more)

Near the end of its career, one of VIA's United Aircraft TurboTrains pauses at suburban Dorval, Quebec, 12 miles into its 335-mile Montreal-Toronto journey. The Turbos were mechanically challengin... (more)

With the 1980s version of the Seattle skyline in the background, Amtrak's Pioneer gets underway out of King Street Station, bound for Salt Lake City and a Chicago connection.

As the winter sun drops low, the Amtrak yard crew aboard RS-3 103 pushes the equipment for an outbound corridor train from Southampton Street yard into South Station. Amtrak 103 was built as NYC 8... (more)

As the afternoon rush hour approaches, half of the MBTA's fleet of 8 ex-PRR E8s have moved from the service tracks into Boston's South Station, where they will split into two pairs and couple onto... (more)

Anywhere but Long Island, the sight of a switcher type locomotive leading a passenger train would be an oddity, but the LIRR bought 23 EMD MP15ACs with high speed gearing for commuter service and ... (more)

An inbound Long Island commuter train swings off the Oyster Bay branch and onto the mainline at Nassau Tower in Mineola, NY. Leading the way is "power pack" cab car 620, which began life... (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.

The Reading owned a dozen of Alco's handsome Century 630s. RDG 5301 posed at the joint RDG/CNJ engine terminal in Bethlehem, PA, on a spring day.

In 1978 Conrail was the contract operator for the New York MTA's Hudson Line service and the standard consist for off-peak Poughkeepsie shuttles was a pair of well-worn FL9s sandwiching a pair of ... (more)

Conrail FL9 5039 heads up a Poughkeepsie to Croton-Harmon shuttle southbound along the Hudson at Cold Spring, NY. The FL9/coach/coach/FL9 set represented the standard off peak consist at the time.... (more)

Well-weathered Burlington Northern power in the form of F7 840 and a pair of NW5s lays over at Auburn, WA. The F-unit was ex-NP and the rare NW5s were ex-GN.