Three Roads, Three Builders

During the colorful Susquehanna era in Binghamton, New York, diverse gatherings of paint schemes and locomotive models were commonplace, but different... (more)

When New Haven U25B 2519 posed at the Maybrook, NY, engine terminal in June 1969, Penn Central was already beginning to shift traffic away from this once-important connection between the NH and th... (more)

An impressive string of five New Haven U25Bs heads up an eastbound Maybrook Line freight dropping downhill through Shelton, CT. Lashups of U25Bs and Century 425s were the usual power on this impor... (more)

An early winter snow has dusted the ground as New Haven Railroad train NO-9 (New Haven/Cedar Hill Yard to Maybrook, NY) begins its climb out of the Housatonic Valley at Shelton, CT. Three U25Bs te... (more)

This Penn Central freight out of Selkirk Yard was southbound at Beacon, NY, on a summer afternoon, about to diverge from the Hudson Line onto the former New Haven Beacon Branch in order to head ea... (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 storm clouds loom in the background with rain just hours away, SP 3100 catches some sweet, late afternoon light as it backs into one of the equipment sheds at the Orange Empire Railroad Museum.... (more)

Milwaukee Road U25B No. 5007 sits outside the Tacoma Shops coupled to sister unit 5006.

It’s early morning on the day after Christmas, 1985, and five Maine Central U-Boats move out of the Delaware & Hudson East Binghamton Engine Terminal. They have been assigned to helper/runaround... (more)

Other than a few Alco road switchers, the Maine Central's road power was largely EMD until GE sold them ten U18 "baby boats" in 1975. Later, the MEC ended up with two classes of secondhand U-boats... (more)

A visit to Conrail’s Conway Yard in August, 1978 began with hopes of seeing some of the sis-axle Alco Centuries that frequented the area. While we found our quarry, the real prize was this forme... (more)

Detroit, in the early 1960s, was not a hot bed of Pennsy activity, in terms of freight traffic; there was only one or two inbound trains per day. On the plus side, they were typically drawn by som... (more)

A Santa Fe intermodal train slows for the Rock Island crossing at Joliet, IL. The westbound train is on the Santa Fe mainline out of Chicago, shared at this point with Illinois Central Gulf. Power... (more)

Little snow, but icy conditions greet ten year old PC 2653, a U25B built in December 1965, and a pair of Southern Pacific SD40s at Penn Central's 56th St. Yard in Chicago, IL. In a few months 2653... (more)

A four-unit GE/Alco lashup leads New Haven train Advance OB-2 (Maybrook, NY, to Boston) through Brewster, NY, on a summer afternoon. A/OB-2 was a hot freight forwarding interchange traffic from th... (more)