In the winter of 1978 the MBTA was perennially short of power for its commuter trains and sometimes borrowed Amtrak RS3s to help out. Amtrak 100 teamed up with an MBTA GP9 on this Needham Branch t... (more)

Its journey from Washington nearly complete, an Amtrak corridor train enters the old Back Bay Station in Boston. The smoke screen in the background was left by a just-departed MBTA local. The trac... (more)

Led by an SD45 and a mate, Conrail train NHSE (New Haven/Cedar Hill to Selkirk) comes off the ex-NH Springfield Line onto the former Boston & Albany at Springfield, MA. Here the train will back ac... (more)

As seen from the now-closed 138th Street station in the Bronx, a Penn Central Harlem Line train bound from Grand Central to Brewster crosses the big bridge over the Harlem River. A pair of ex-NH F... (more)

On the second day of 1971, Penn Central Harlem Line commuter trains meet at North White Plains station. The southbound Brewster-Grand Central run at the platform has the usual pair of FL9s, but th... (more)

This unusual RS3/GP9B pairing was assigned as a hump switcher at Penn Central's ex-New Haven Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, where they rested among assorted other power. Not long after this pho... (more)

A Penn Central freight out of Manhattan's West Side yards rolls north through the Croton-Harmon station behind a U33B/GP40 lashup.

Scrappers have cut into the side of New Haven EP-4 class electric 360 as it meets its end with two others at Cedar Hill Yard in North Haven, CT. The New Haven retired the last of these GE-built 2-... (more)

The New Haven Railroad once maintained a vast complex of freight yards, wharf trackage, and freight houses in South Boston, no trace of which remain today as the site is dominated by the high rise... (more)

With a GP40-2 and two GP9s up front, Boston & Maine train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) rolls past the shop lead at Billerica, MA, on its way to Boston via the MBTA Lowell line.

Blue GP9s congregate at Ayer, MA, as Boston & Maine train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) behind three of them passes the single unit assigned to local freight AY-1. By this time Ayer tower her... (more)

Dual GG1s head up a southbound Conrail freight at Rahway, NJ. Lead unit 4821 was one of the PRR's first group of GG1s, built by Baldwin/Westinghouse in 1935, and it was still going strong at age 4... (more)

Back when long freights were a common sight on the Northeast Corridor, a trio of Penn Central E44s march south through Monmouth Junction, NJ.

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

The Dominion Atlantic local freight from Kentville has just arrived at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, behind CP SW1200 8132, clearing the way for the daily passenger run to Halifax. Soon the RDC laying ov... (more)