A Boston & Maine GP7 working in MBTA commuter service approaches Boston's North Station with a train of depowered RDCs. These GP7/RDC combinations were common for a couple years after 1978 as the ... (more)

Bound for the D&H connection at Mechanicville, NY, a westbound Boston & Maine freight gets underway after making a pickup at Ayer, MA. A GP18 leads three GP9s on the point.

Boston & Maine GP9 1734 poses at the back door of the Boston Engine Terminal shop before making its next run west to Mechanicville, NY. By this time the handsome "Bluebird" paint scheme ... (more)

A Conrail GP38-2 and its mate lead a short freight off the Chemical Coast line through the Elizabethport, NJ, station. Until 1967 this platform, perpendicular to the four-track mainline, served Je... (more)

Led by a U33C and two other six-axle GEs, Conrail train TV-9 accelerates west through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. In the early 1980s the Sunday edition of TV-9, like this one, was l... (more)

MBTA trolley line car 3283, seen here at the Reservoir carhouse, was built in 1949 for the Boston Elevated Railway and lasted in MBTA service until 2007. It was built with a wooden body to help in... (more)

A pair of Conrail E44 electrics hum through Iselin, NJ, as they approach Metropark station with a northbound TrailVan piggyback train.

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)

With the Rhode Island state capitol in the background, the engineer of a southbound Amtrak train looks back over the platform during the stop at Providence, RI. In 1986 the tracks through downtown... (more)

A Chicago-bound train off Amtrak's Michigan line parallels the South Shore as it speeds along outside Porter, IN.

The New Haven had been gone for three years and the paint on yet-unaltered Penn Central RDC 33 showed wear as it crossed the diamond in front of the 1883 station at Walpole, MA, on its way to Fran... (more)

Penn Central train PL-1 between Providence, RI, and Lowell, MA, via Mansfield and Framingham rolls north through Medfield, MA, behind an RS11/GP30/RS3 lashup. The two Alcos are ex-NH units and the... (more)