In October 1982 the Central Vermont and Boston & Maine ran a promotional version of their Rocket overnight piggyback service between St. Albans, VT, and New Haven, CT. Headed up by CV and B&M GP9s... (more)

Assorted FL9s and a paint-shedding EP5 electric gathered at New Haven Motor Storage a few weeks into Penn Central's operation of the New Haven. FL9 5006 now wears its PC number but the scene is ot... (more)

An impressive collection of Penn Central power gathers at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, on a Sunday afternoon. The visible models include F7, RS3, RS11, U25B, U25C, and SW1500, and in the dist... (more)

For decades, an engine change at South Amboy, NJ, was a ritual for New York & Long Branch/North Jersey Coast Line trains headed to or from Penn Station. Once the crew conference is complete the Pe... (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)

Alco switchers dominated the yard jobs at Boston's Beacon Park Yard in late New York Central and early Penn Central days. Ex-NYC S2 9649 worked the west end of the yard on a spring afternoon. Note... (more)

The final switcher model offered by Alco was the 1000 hp T-6. Only 55 were built, six of which went to the Pennsylvania RR and on to Penn Central. As the sun came up on a late winter morning, PC 9... (more)

Penn Central's black dip paint scheme is generally not remembered with fondness, but lots of classic locomotives wore it. Minimally decorated Century 630 6328, an ex-PRR unit, visited Boston in Ap... (more)

A Boston-Providence commuter train operated by Penn Central for the MBTA passes the old wooden tower at Mansfield, MA, as it slows for a station stop. The engineer's window of ex-PRR E8 4264 shows... (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.

During Amtrak's 1981-82 evaluation of Bombardier LRC equipment, the squat little LRC locomotive and two cars making up Boston-New Haven semi-local train 153, the Beacon Hill, pause at Providence, ... (more)

The lead unit of this Northeast Corridor doubleheader is one of the five ex-PRR E8s that Amtrak modified with HEP generators to make them compatible with Amfleet. The Washington-bound train is les... (more)

Penn Central FA1 1333, formerly New Haven 0428, was one of PC's last four active Alco cab units along with three ex-NH mates, and it worked in home territory until the end. Minimally repainted in ... (more)

On a long summer evening, a former New Haven EP-5 class electric, now a Penn Central E40, races through Milford, CT, with a Grand Central-New Haven rush hour commuter train. These big GE motors we... (more)

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)