A westbound freight on Penn Central's ex-New Haven Maybrook Line climbs the hill at Stevenson, CT, behind a mix of four axle and six axle GEs. The lead unit, PC U25B 2685, is the former NH 2525, t... (more)
In 1969 Penn Central still originated and terminated several freights a day in the ex-NYC yards along Manhattan's West Side freight line. As the summer morning sun burned off the night's Hudson Ri... (more)
Penn Central train 62 between Chicago and New York was the nameless successor to the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and the ancestor of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited. On a hazy summer ... (more)
Freight action on the Northeast Corridor finds an RS-11 powered local passing a freight that's about to enter Waverly Yards in Newark. PC 7627 was built in 1957 and was retired within a year of C... (more)
On a hazy summer morning two years before Amtrak, Penn Central train 81 between New York and Albany comes off the Harlem River lift bridge and enters the Bronx behind an ancient-looking P2b electr... (more)