With more than enough power to accelerate its short commuter train, Southern Pacific SDP45 3208 prepares to depart San Francisco for San Jose on a spring afternoon. In passenger service SP locomot... (more)

This RDC was about to undergo a face transplant. After Boston & Maine RDC-1 6117 suffered some sort of misfortune, the B&M's Billerica shop crews repaired it with a fresh cab end salvaged from scr... (more)

On a quiet Sunday afternoon, Boston & Maine RDCs pass the weekend inside the B&M's Boston Engine Terminal roundhouse.

Ever since the early 1970s, when the New England Patriots moved from Boston to suburban Foxboro, MA, fans have been able to ride out to games there on MBTA football specials. Here tripleheaded GP9... (more)

An unrepainted New York Central RS-3 easily handles a short Penn Central work train westbound at Ashland, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. The cargo is a signal cabin on its way to or from a new... (more)

A GE quartet consisting of three U25Bs and a U33C head up a westbound Penn Central freight at Ashland, MA. The train is bound from Boston to Selkirk on the former Boston & Albany.

Amtrak train 86, the northbound Virginian, pauses for boarding passengers at Alexandria, VA, behind the usual F40. The Virginian was a Richmond-New York run.

Bound from New York to Chicago via the long way around, Amtrak's westbound Cardinal makes its station stop at Alexandria, VA, on a summer morning. A pair of F40s coupled elephant style are on the ... (more)

A Penn Central GG1 glides into the old station at Bridgeport, CT, with a Boston-Washington train. This NH-era station was a quarter mile east of the current Metro North platforms.

A pair of former New Haven U25Bs on the point of a Penn Central freight out of Oak Point Yard in the Bronx have completed their work at East Bridgeport Yard in Bridgeport, CT, and are on their way... (more)

The baggage elevators at Springfield (MA) Union Station frame New Haven FL9 2053 as it prepares to depart for Grand Central Terminal with an afternoon run.

In the New Haven Railroad's final summer, a pair of FL9s speed east through Branford, CT, with a Boston-bound express out of Grand Central Terminal.

On the former New Haven Shore Line, a pair of ex-PRR E8s charge through the Pine Orchard section of Branford, CT, on the point of a Penn Central Boston-Washington train. The cinder platform that I... (more)

On a fall day seven months before Amtrak would take over, a pair of Penn Central Empire Service trains headed up by ex-NYC E8s meet at the Albany-Rensselaer station.

Three-year-old Maine Central GP38 261 posed at Rigby Yard in South Portland, ME, on a spring morning.