A pair of Penn Central E8s, the first still in PRR paint, speed the Washington-Boston Colonial through Canton Junction, MA. Following the PC takeover of the New Haven, ex-PRR E8s quickly took over... (more)

A pair of ex-PRR E8s still in Pennsy colors lead a Penn Central Boston-New York train through Readville, MA, on a summer afternoon. The massive two-level ex-NH station here was destroyed by fire a... (more)

New Haven EP-5 class electric 376 leads train 173, the Boston-Washington Senator, as it is framed by the Stratford, CT, station on a bleak spring day. This building, which still stands in 2020, is... (more)

A Penn Central Boston-Washington train rolls through the big cut at Groton, CT, behind a pair of ex-PRR E8s, which by the summer of 1969 had taken over the ex-NH Shore Line from FL9s. This cut was... (more)

One of the shortest assignments a GG-1 could get was the short trip forwarding Lehigh Valley passenger trains between the Lehigh Valley connection at Newark, NJ and New York Penn Station. Here, t... (more)

A year and a half ago, I posted my father's photo of the rear of the RFK funeral train. I finally located the photo of the front of the train. My mother recalled that she and my father went to s... (more)

An Allan H. Roberts original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

At dusk, a United Aircraft TurboTrain races through Milford, CT, as it makes its way from Grand Central Terminal to Boston as Penn Central train 3002. This was the original three-car configuration... (more)

A consist of mostly ex-PRR equipment follows ex-PRR E8 4261 to make up Penn Central Boston-Washington train 175, the Patriot, westbound at Mystic, CT, on a summer afternoon.

In the summer before Amtrak, a westbound Penn Central train out of Boston approaches the station at Mystic, CT. All three PC components are represented in the consist of an ex-PRR E8, and ex-NYC b... (more)

A Penn Central GG1 glides into the old station at Bridgeport, CT, with a Boston-Washington train. This NH-era station was a quarter mile east of the current Metro North platforms.

Trailing a mix of former New Haven and Pennsylvania equipment, a Penn Central GG1 speeds through a tunnel of catenary bridges as it leads a Washington-Boston train through Stratford, CT.

In its first weeks of revenue service for Penn Central, a United Aircraft TurboTrain that still wears its original DOT colors speeds through the station at Stratford, CT, bound for Grand Central T... (more)

Two months before the Penn Central takeover, New Haven train 71 between Springfield, MA, and Grand Central Terminal pauses under the catenary at Milford, CT, behind a pair of FL9s. Note the two RP... (more)

Following Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, classic GG1 electrics quickly took over all passenger trains between Penn Station and New Haven. Now at home in former NH territory, GG1 4901 sw... (more)