There's no place like home! Penn Central N9E transfer caboose (a.k.a. cabin car). Wellsboro Junction, PA (former New York Central branch).

A Penn Central westbound freight rolls slowly to a meet with the sad little 3-car passenger train from Buffalo, NY.

With a healthy burp of Alco smoke, an A-B-B-A set of former New Haven FAs and FBs accelerates past South Bay Tower in South Boston as they get underway with Penn Central train BL-1 for Lowell, MA,... (more)

Heading literally and figuratively into the sunset, an A-B-B-A set of Alco cabs departs Penn Central's South Boston freight terminal for Lowell, MA, with train BL-1. The locomotives and trackage a... (more)

Given today's crowds on Metro North, it is noteworthy that in the late 1960s, commuter business on Penn Central's Hudson Line was light enough that two-car MU trains were sufficient for off-peak s... (more)

A typical diverse assortment of Penn Central passenger power awaits assignment at New Haven Motor Storage back in 1971 We see GG1 4872 in PRR paint, a former New Haven EP-5 electric (now PC class ... (more)

A former NYC RS-3 is in charge of Penn Central's Pittsfield-Adams (MA) local freight as it crosses the Cheshire Reservoir causeway at Cheshire, MA, northbound on a spring morning. This part of the... (more)

Empire Service trains under Penn Central were rather modest affairs. Albany-New York train 80 consisted of an E8 and just two cars as it emerged from the short single track tunnel at Garrison, NY,... (more)

Penn Central was a year old in June 1969 but this scene at Poughkeepsie carried on the New York Central heritage. E8s 4066-4093 have arrived from Croton-Harmon on a commuter train out of Grand Cen... (more)

A South Amboy power move has just emerged out of the subway at Union Tower as the crew heads for Meadows where the units will be serviced prior to returning to South Amboy. Included in the consis... (more)

Following its takeover of the New Haven, Penn Central assigned RSD-15 (DL600B) 6811 to heavy switching duties at Northup Avenue Yard in Providence, and the big six-motor Alco remained in town for ... (more)

With downtown Providence in the background, a GP9/FA1 pairing of two former New Haven diesels that have been renumbered but not repainted hauls an eastbound Penn Central freight towards Northup Av... (more)

A pair of unaltered New York Central E8s pause at Elkhart, IN, on the point of Chicago-New York train 64, Penn Central's morning departure for the east via the ex-NYC mainline. Two coaches and a d... (more)

A pair of Penn Centralized FL9s lead a lengthy Grand Central-New Haven evening rush hour commuter train through Milford, CT. The relatively poor acceleration of the FL9s as compared with electric ... (more)

A former New York Central F7 with its old identity intact gets its face washed at Penn Central's Colehour Yard in Hammond, IN, on a summer afternoon.