RED, WHITE, BLUE AND PC TOO! When New York Central 41788 was built in the Despatch Shops at East Rochester, New York and began service in 1956 it was used as an automobile hauler before today’s... (more)

The daily PC freight from Montreal to Syracuse is starting its journey as it pulls out of CPR's St. Luc Yard.

Once part of a Tuscan fleet that pulled varnish on the Great Broad Way, this Penn Central E8 has now been stripped of many parts and languishes in Conrail’s Altoona dead line. As soon as its two... (more)

Penn Central RS3 5230 heads up the weekday Pittsfield-Adams local northbound at Lanesboro, MA, on the former Boston & Albany North Adams branch. In PC days the Adams-North Adams portion of this br... (more)

A former New Haven GP9 leads a Penn Central equipment draft across the Fort Point Channel drawbridge at the throat of Boston's South Station. The coaches are ex-NH "American Flyer" cars.... (more)

An ex-PRR Century 630 that still proudly sports its Pennsy keystone heads up a pair of EMDs on a northbound Penn Central freight that's coming off the West Shore route and joining the B&A mainline... (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)

An eastbound Conrail train crosses from Allentown to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on one of Allentown Yard’s receiving tracks. A Penn Central SD40 and an Erie Lackawanna U36C lead the consist out of ... (more)

An Alco Century 630 leads three GE U-boats and an EMD GP30 on a five-unit, three-builder Penn Central lashup dropping down the west slope of the Berkshires, westbound at Hinsale, MA, en route to S... (more)

The last of the winter snow is still on the ground as five Penn Central GP40s led by 3212 attack the 1.4% grade of the west slope of the Berkshires, eastbound at Hinsdale, MA, with a Boston-bound ... (more)

Penn Central train NS-1 (New Haven/Cedar Hill to Selkirk via Springfield) climbs the Berkshire hills through Huntington, MA behind an ex-NYC U25B and an ex-NH RS-11, RS-3, and GP9.

A mix of former NYC and NH power leads Penn Central train NS-1 (New Haven/Cedar Hill to Selkirk via Springfield) through Beckett, MA, on a summer afternoon. An ex-NYC U25B leads an RS-11, RS-3, an... (more)

A pair of ex-PRR E8s lead a Penn Central Providence-Boston commuter train under one of the semaphore signal bridges that guarded the approaches to Boston's South Station. These lower quadrant sema... (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)