Working west on Boston & Maine rails with train POPY, a trio of Delaware & Hudson GP39-2s swing through North Leominster, MA, on a snowy winter morning. POPY was the Guilford organization's long d... (more)

The calendar has just turned to April but there's still snow on the ground in Otter River, MA, as Boston & Maine train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC) smokes things up on its... (more)

A stretch of subzero weather in January 1984 left Amtrak's trouble-prone SPV-2000 railcars unable to propel themselves, so diesels including veteran RS-3s were drafted to keep things moving. Amtra... (more)

After arriving from the east on VIA's Canadian, a candy-striped Canadian Pacific FP7 stares into the waiting room of Vancouver's CN station (now Pacific Central Station). VIA had moved the train f... (more)

During the stop at Banff, Alberta, a crewman boards the FP7 on the point of VIA #2, the eastbound Canadian, as a Canadian Pacific work train behind a pair of SD40-2s waits in the clear.

When the Norfolk & Western took over the Wabash, it inherited a group of eight FM Train Masters that had been rebuilt with Alco 16-251B engines. N&W 3594 posed at Bellevue, OH, beneath the smokest... (more)

An impressive late-1960s sight at the Norfolk & Western's big yard at Bellevue, OH, was the trios of ex-Wabash FM Train Masters that worked the hump. These massive locomotives had been re-engined ... (more)

Well outside its home territory, an MBTA commuter set poses at White River Junction, VT, after arriving from Boston on a fan trip sponsored by the Massachusetts Bay Railroad Enthusiasts over the B... (more)

On a bright fall day, nearly new MBTA F40PH-2C pushes an inbound Fitchburg Line train through Littleton, MA, on its way to Boston's North Station.

A westbound Reading freight behind a GP35 and a Century 630 prepares to leave the RDG/CNJ yard at Allentown, PA, on a misty spring day. This train was bound for the railroad's namesake city of Rea... (more)

A Reading freight with interchange traffic for the Western Maryland heads for Hagerstown, MD, behind a GP30/GP30/C424 lashup. The Reading and WM pooled power and crews on the Lurgan line between H... (more)

On a winter morning, triple E8s power Penn Central Flexivan mail train 104 through East Chatham, NY, headed for Boston on the former Boston & Albany line. Back then dedicated mail and express jobs... (more)

Penn meets Central as E8s gather on the service tracks at Penn Central's Beacon Park Yard in Boston. The ex-NYC unit is in nice shape but its ex-PRR neighbor is shedding paint and might benefit fr... (more)

As the sun drops low in West Haven, CT, an Amtrak AEM-7 on the point of a Boston-Washington train speeds beneath a bank of the unique stubby semaphores installed here by the New Haven Railroad in ... (more)

Near the end of their short tenure on Amtrak's Hartford/Springfield line, a pair of Budd SPV-2000 railcars cant into a curve south of Berlin, CT, on their way to a mainline connection at New Haven... (more)