Sporting white flags as appropriate for an extra, the Central Vermont's daily Brattleboro (VT)-Palmer (MA) local freight cruises south near Vernon, VT, behind one of the CV's classic "torpedo... (more)

The Central Vermont's northbound Rocket piggybacker departs Palmer, MA, for St. Albans, VT, behind a GP9/RS11 lashup. This expedited intermodal train ran in various forms over the years, including... (more)

A Delaware & Hudson GP39-2 fronts a Boston & Maine (ex-Conrail) GP40 and a B&M GP40-2 on train POPY westbound at Shirley, MA, on the B&M. POPY was the Guilford organization's Portland, ME, to Poto... (more)

The Boston & Maine's road slug set -- GP40-2s 300 and 301 with homemade slug 100 -- departs the East Deerfield yard for Mechanicville, NY, on the point of a westbound freight.

Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight pauses at the distinctive Tacoma Union Station on the last lap of its long journey from Los Angeles to Seattle. Note the steam generator car behind the F40s. At... (more)

At the end of its 2206-mile journey from Chicago, Amtrak's westbound Empire Builder arrives at Seattle's King Street Station behind an unusual combination of three nearly new F40s and two E-units.... (more)

Its morning journey from Vancouver nearly complete, Amtrak's southbound Pacific International emerges from the tunnel beneath downtown Seattle and enters King Street Station. An F40 with Amfleet w... (more)

A pair of Burlington Northern GP9s lead a northbound freight through downtown Seattle at King Street Station. These "torpedo boat" geeps are former Northern Pacific units.

As dusk falls, a westbound Amtrak train bound from Boston to Washington parallels the shore of Long Island Sound at Stonington, CT, behind the usual F40PH.

As dusk falls over the Illinois prairie, the Toledo, Peoria & Western's westbound local freight approaches the town of Sheldon behind an RS-11/SW1500 duo.

The morning mist still hangs in the Hudson Valley as a quartet of Penn Central E8s hustle a southbound Flexi-Van mail train towards the ex-NYC yard on the west side of Manhattan.

Passing rows of stored boxcars, a former New Haven RS-3 renumbered and now working for Penn Central pulls a transfer cut from the hump into the westbound departure yard at Cedar Hill Yard in New H... (more)

Amtrak's state-supported Bay State, the Boston-Washington "Inland Route" train via Springfield and Hartford, swings through a curve at Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. This ... (more)

I don't know whether there was a special group on board or the crew was just feeling festive, but this edition of the Boston section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited saluted the Christmas season as ... (more)

With the Lake Champlain breakwater in the background, Vermont Railway SW1 5 poses in the Burlington yard. Today a park and bike trail have been built on what was then unused land between the VTR y... (more)