E8-powered Penn Central train #16, the Duquesne running from Pittsburgh to New York, overtakes an eastbound coal train with rear end helpers on the climb between Cresson and Gallitzen, PA.

A U25B/GP38 helper set shoves hard on the rear of a Penn Central coal train climbing the final miles to the summit of the Alleghenies. The uphill tracks are covered with sand from the countless ot... (more)

During its first two years of operation, the Cape Cod & Hyannis tourist railroad relied on leased Bay Colony Alco switchers to power its trains. Bay Colony 1058 has just completed running around i... (more)

During its first two years of operation, the Cape Cod & Hyannis tourist railroad relied on leased Bay Colony Alco switchers to power its trains. Bay Colony 1058 led this Buzzards Bay-Hyannis train... (more)

Eastbound Boston & Maine train SPPO (Springfield, MA, to Portland, ME) behind a GP40-2/GP38-2 duo has arrived at the big yard at East Deerfield, MA, and come to a stop at the east end yard office.... (more)

Eastbound Boston & Maine train SPPO (Springfield, MA, to Portland, ME) rolls through the center of Gardner, MA, behind a GP40-2/GP38-2 duo.

On an early spring day, the Central Vermont's Brattleboro (VT) to New London (CT) job rolls south though Millers Falls, MA, behind a trio of GP9s. The roof-mounted air tanks on the second and thir... (more)

The Central Vermont piggyback train known as the Rocket storms north through Millers Falls, MA, behind a "torpedo boat" GP9 and a smoking RS11. At the time this dedicated intermodal serv... (more)

By 1970 it was rare to find an F-unit in a freight lashup on the former Boston & Albany. Here an unusual GP40/F7B/SD35 combination approaches Boston's Beacon Park Yard on the point of an eastboun... (more)

Alco switchers dominated the yard jobs at Boston's Beacon Park Yard in late New York Central and early Penn Central days. Ex-NYC S2 9649 worked the west end of the yard on a spring afternoon. Note... (more)

Conrail train TV-9 (Boston-Chicago) kicks up snow as it swings through the curve at the former Riverside station location in Newton, MA, on a winter morning. C30-7A 6557 leads the usual trio of bi... (more)

One of Conrail's ten humpbacked C32-8s leads a GE trio on train SEBO (Selkirk-Boston) eastbound through Ashland, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. Three-unit sets of six-axle GEs ruled the B&A at... (more)

On a winter afternoon, a Canadian Pacific Ottawa-Montreal train pauses at suburban Dorval, Quebec, ten miles from its destination at Windsor Station. A candy-striped FP7 leads a short consist that... (more)

On a quiet night, New Haven RS-3 521 rests inside the Southampton Street roundhouse in the railroad's Dover Street yard complex in South Boston. Today a modern diesel shop occupies this space.

In the 1960s, Budd RDCs covered all passenger service on the New Haven's Naugatuck Valley branch. Car 22 smoked things up as it departed Seymour, CT, on its way from Waterbury to Bridgeport. A cou... (more)