Penn Central RS3 5230 heads up the weekday Pittsfield-Adams local northbound at Lanesboro, MA, on the former Boston & Albany North Adams branch. In PC days the Adams-North Adams portion of this br... (more)

A former New Haven GP9 leads a Penn Central equipment draft across the Fort Point Channel drawbridge at the throat of Boston's South Station. The coaches are ex-NH "American Flyer" cars.... (more)

On a fine summer day a westbound Canadian National freight out of Montreal glides through Lachine, Quebec, behind a trio of GP40-2s and a Century 424.

A pair of Canadian National steeplecab electrics approach the outer terminal of the Deux Montagnes suburban line with an evening rush hour train. These GE products, 30 years old at the time, were ... (more)

An ex-PRR Century 630 that still proudly sports its Pennsy keystone heads up a pair of EMDs on a northbound Penn Central freight that's coming off the West Shore route and joining the B&A mainline... (more)

On its way to Boston, a Penn Central freight that has just departed Selkirk Yard passes shuttered SK Tower, which formerly controlled the junction between the Boston & Albany and West Shore routes... (more)

Pacific Transportation Services was a Tacoma, WA, locomotive dealer that owned this Fairbanks-Morse H10-44, parked along the Tacoma waterfront back in 1982. PTS 122 was built for the log-hauling C... (more)

The Central Wisconsin Railroad was a fairly short-lived operation that in 1980 took over Milwaukee Road trackage west from Waukesha, WI, to Milton Junction and later expanded. Most of its diesel f... (more)

On a bleak spring day fifty years ago, a Lehigh Valley switch crew and their SW8 "pup" work Richards Yard at Easton, PA, as a westbound freight behind a pair of Century 628s (led by the appropriat... (more)

A trio of Lehigh Valley Century 420s await their next job at Oak Island Yard in Newark, NJ. The generally grubby appearance of these Alcos was unfortunately typical at the time... their original g... (more)

An Alco Century 630 leads three GE U-boats and an EMD GP30 on a five-unit, three-builder Penn Central lashup dropping down the west slope of the Berkshires, westbound at Hinsale, MA, en route to S... (more)

The last of the winter snow is still on the ground as five Penn Central GP40s led by 3212 attack the 1.4% grade of the west slope of the Berkshires, eastbound at Hinsdale, MA, with a Boston-bound ... (more)

HEP-equipped Amtrak E8 495 and three cars made up a northbound New Haven-Springfield train outside Wallingford, CT. The 495 was one of five ex-PRR E8s that received HEP generators to make them com... (more)

With Boston's landmark Hancock Building in the background, an Amtrak E8/F40 team is about to depart the open air platforms at Back Bay with a corridor train for Washington. Tracks in this area are... (more)

Model railroaders will appreciate the authentic "weathering" on this locomotive! EMD re-engined RS3M 9981 posed at Conrail's engine terminal in Hartford, CT. It's on home rails, having b... (more)