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

Getting 40 ready for the day ahead

The Shasta Daylight is burning up the Cal P near Elmira on a hot summer day in 1956. This image was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

Southern Pacific FP7 6453 lead the Coast Daylight south near San Francisco, passing a commuter train heading into the city. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

An F9 ABBA helper set will assist a freight on its climb to Marias Pass.

An ABBBA set of F7s leads a train out of Dearborn Station in Chicago, IL. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

A solo GG1 heads up a short Penn Central freight gliding north through Monmouth Junction, NJ.

The CNJ didn't buy any F7s new, but ended up leasing them from both the B&O and N&W. Here, an example of each lead a rather unimpressive eastbound past an RS3 drilling Bound Brook. R.T. Steinbr... (more)

A four-car set of original Metroliners races south through Princeton Jct., NY, en route from New York to Washington. In late 1971 Amtrak was the operator of the train but the equipment still belon... (more)

For a couple years into the Conrail era, the Chessie System continued to use its ancestral Baltimore & Ohio trackage rights over the former Reading and Jersey Central to run freights from Philadel... (more)

As a Conrail piggyback train rolls by on the ex-PRR, a solo New Jersey DOT RDC running as a Bayonne-Cranford shuttle picks up passengers at the former Jersey Central station in Elizabeth, NJ. Thre... (more)

Western Pacific F7(A) 917-D, WP GP7 710 and F7(A) 913-A westbound at Pleasanton, California.

SEPTA’s test train to check out the former Reading electrification’s suitability for its on-order AEM-7’s threads its way south out of Lansdale, PA. Although it looks like a five-car bluelin... (more)

An Amfleet-equipped passenger train powered Amtrak AEM-7 electric locomotive No. 931 approaches the platforms of Elizabeth, New Jersey, headed west (south) on the Northeast Corridor on the afterno... (more)

BN 9792, one of two former NP FP7s, mates up with a former GN passenger F3B and the other former NP FP7 at Harrison St. engine facilities (former GN) at Minneapolis, MN in March 1973. These were p... (more)