If I had to pick one locomotive to symbolize first generation diesels, it would be EMD's F7, some 3,849 of which were built for service in the US, Canada, and Mexico. New York Central 1783, not ye... (more)

Penn Central train 72, a Buffalo-New York Empire Service run, gets underway for Grand Central out of the original Albany-Rensselaer station behind a pair of E-units. Tired-looking E7 4030 is an ex... (more)

Long before the Guilford organization used its corporate identity for system-wide operations under management-friendly work rules, the Springfield Terminal Railway was a 5.5-mile long ex-interurba... (more)

On a cold winter day, a loaded Western Maryland coal train arrives at Hagerstown, MD, behind an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 quartet. Here the pusher set on the rear that assisted it uphill from of the Potomac... (more)

Like a sparking, clanking, riveted dinosaur, a former New York Central P2b electric leads an inbound Penn Central commuter train through the now-closed 138th Street station in the Bronx. Ex-NH FL9... (more)

A westbound freight on Penn Central's ex-New Haven Maybrook Line climbs the hill at Stevenson, CT, behind a mix of four axle and six axle GEs. The lead unit, PC U25B 2685, is the former NH 2525, t... (more)

As the morning rush hour winds down at Boston's South Station, a long Penn Central commuter train that has turned on the loop backs into a platform while a GP9 stands by. Ex-PRR E8s and ex-NH GP9... (more)

Back in 1966, this building that is now part of the Connecticut DOT New Haven shop complex was the New Haven Railroad's main diesel shop. FM H16-44 591 and Alco RS3 534 were among the locomotives ... (more)

In the early 1970s, the Jersey Central leased ten ex-Wabash F7s from the Norfolk & Western to help with a perennial power shortage. N&W 3697 was awaiting its next assignment outside the CNJ/RDG ro... (more)

The Jersey Central owned thirteen six-axle Alco RSD4s, and a regular assignment for a pair of them in later years was the hump switcher job at the CNJ/RDG Allentown, PA, yard. CNJ 1611-1608 paused... (more)

A pair of ex-PRR E8s still in Pennsy colors lead a Penn Central Boston-New York train through Readville, MA, on a summer afternoon. The massive two-level ex-NH station here was destroyed by fire a... (more)

The engineer and conductor of Penn Central train LP-2 (Lowell, MA, to Providence, RI) confer about the switching moves after arriving at South Sudbury, MA, on a fall afternoon. Three imposing GP30... (more)

Claremont & Concord 44-Tonner 31 makes its way past one of the mills in Claremont, NH, on a summer morning. This little engine was built for the Lackawanna in 1948 as DL&W 52.

On a quiet Sunday morning, two pairs of SEPTA Silverliner IV MUs pose beneath the classic trainshed of Philadelphia's Reading Terminal. The trains run through the basement now, but the trainshed e... (more)

All four of the Western Maryland's Alco cabs team up to push an eastbound coal train up the hill between Williamsport and Hagerstown, MD. This pusher job was a regular assignment for the WM's FA2s... (more)