An impending thunderstorm has darkened a hot August evening as Santa Fe train 17, the westbound Super Chief, glides into Joliet Union Station past waiting passengers. With a five-unit lashup of F7... (more)

In the late 1960s/early 70s, Brooklyn's Bush Terminal Railroad was known as the home of some of GE's first diesels, a group of seven 60-ton, 300hp mini-hood units built in 1931 that turned out to ... (more)

"Old Rivets" at twilight, literally and figuratively, in her star-spangled US Bicentennial garb, southbound at 60-per with a Truc-Train. The engineer gives a hearty wave from the cab of... (more)

On a winter afternoon, the sound of EMD and Alco power hard at work fills the air as an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 lashup grinds up Williamsport Hill with an eastbound Western Maryland coal train. Four more ... (more)

All four of the Western Maryland's Alco cabs team up to push an eastbound coal train up the hill between Williamsport and Hagerstown, MD. This pusher job was a regular assignment for the WM's FA2s... (more)

Photographer unknown. Image scanned from a slide that was purchased at a Chicagoland train show in the mid 1970s. The scene appears to be from the early to mid 1960s era, but the state being Illin... (more)

Photographer unknown. Image scanned from a slide that was purchased at a Chicagoland train show in the mid 1970s. The scene appears to be from the early to mid 1960s era.

Boston & Maine SW9 rumbles through the woods and across a country road in Groton, MA, with the Hollis (NH) branch local out of Ayer, MA. This 11-mile branch was abandoned in 1982 and is now a rail... (more)

Tripleheaded silver E-units led by E9 9988B accelerate west through La Vergne, Illinois, with Burlington train 31, the Seattle-bound Empire Builder, which they will pass on to the Great Northern i... (more)

Doubleheaded Penn Central GG1s lead autoracks eastbound through Earnest Yard in Norristown, PA, on a misty spring day.

Never to be repeated- a Conrail local heads out the Cornwall Secondary with a carload of newsprint for the "Lebanon Daily News." This line is now a rail-trail.

In August of 1972, a BN transfer run heads for the bridge over the Columbia River into Portland, OR. The train is departing BN's Vancouver Yard with four ex-SP&S Alco RS3s for power.

Streamliners on the Main Line

Arguably the best looking train to travel the PRR main line west of Philadelphia since the more prosperous days of the Pennsy was Conrail’s office c... (more)

Still bearing the New Haven logo on its nose, Penn Central E40 4974 rumbles out of the Park Avenue tunnel at 97th Street with a northbound passenger run. On April 8,1970, a few hints of spring hov... (more)