Louisville & Nashville trains 3 and 4, the Chicago-Danville Flyer, were inherited from the Chicago & Eastern Illinois when the L&N and MP split up the C&EI, and on this day the locomotive was ex-C... (more)

Boston & Maine SW1 1128 and the crew of the Bemis Branch local freight run around a boxcar before easing it into an industrial spur in Waltham, MA. This short branch was a stub-end remnant of the ... (more)

Nearing the end of its year-long lease to the MBTA for Boston commuter service, Delaware & Hudson PA 16 speeds through Weston, MA, westbound on a long summer evening with Boston-Framingham train 4... (more)

The waiting passengers at Brewster, NY, prepare to board a Grand Central-bound Harlem Line train on a cold fall morning, as FL9 5042 and its equipment arrive from the Putnam Junction coach yard. C... (more)

On its way to Boston, a Penn Central freight that has just departed Selkirk Yard passes shuttered SK Tower, which formerly controlled the junction between the Boston & Albany and West Shore routes... (more)

In the summer before Amtrak, a westbound Penn Central train out of Boston approaches the station at Mystic, CT. All three PC components are represented in the consist of an ex-PRR E8, and ex-NYC b... (more)

Wearing their original colors of grey, yellow, and road grime, a trio of Lehigh Valley Alco Century 420s prepare to depart the big yard at Lehighton, PA, with a long freight. The LV was not known... (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)

On a fall afternoon, Amtrak's southbound Adirondack has arrived at Albany-Rensselaer station, where D&H PA 17 and the dome car will come off and the coaches will be forwarded to Grand Central Term... (more)

The crew takes an opportunity to confer as Penn Central train BL-1 waits for the signal to proceed onto the Midland line at Readville, MA. Train BL-1, running between Boston and Lowell, MA, via Wa... (more)

On its way down the Hudson Line from Albany to Grand Central Terminal on a late fall day, a Rohr Turboliner glides out of the short tunnel at Garrison, NY. The old NYC milepost says it's 50 miles ... (more)

Penn Central train PL-1 between Providence, RI, and Lowell, MA, via Mansfield and Framingham rolls north through Medfield, MA, behind an RS11/GP30/RS3 lashup. The two Alcos are ex-NH units and the... (more)

In the mid-1960s, the Maine Central had enough local business in Rockland, ME, to station a yard switcher there in addition to the power for the local freight to Brunswick. Alco S4 314 rested in f... (more)

An ex-NYC F7 teamed up with a GP40 on this westbound freight out of Cleveland seen at La Grange, Ohio, on the ex-NYC Big Four route. F-units were common in the area at the time.

Carrying bridge traffic moving between Conrail at Rotterdam Jct., NY, and the Maine Central at Portland, ME, Boston & Maine train SEPO-B rolls through Lowell, MA, behind a GP40-2 trio. The modest ... (more)