Penn Central train 427 between Boston and Albany was Boston's pre-Amtrak connection to Chicago and points in between. With its usual modest consist of an E8, a coach, and a snack bar coach, train ... (more)

In the early 1970s, Budd RDCs covered all Boston & Maine commuter runs out of North Station. This pair made up a South Acton local seen pulling into the Kendal Green station in the town of Weston.... (more)

A set of Boston & Maine RDCs that has just left the station at Lowell, MA, on its way to Boston hums past Lowell Tower on its way out of town.

A couple decades before Millennium Park would bury this scene underground, fifty-year-old South Shore MUs wait out the midday lull at Randolph Street Station in Chicago.

A renumbered but not yet repainted ex-New Haven EP-5 electric swings through Milford, CT, with a Penn Central train that is probably a New Haven-Grand Central Terminal local. The EP-5s (PC class E... (more)

DRGW 5771 leads the webound Rio Grande Zephyr at Plainview, CO, on Dec 4, 1982.

Amid a frosting of snow, an MBTA commuter train made up of RDCs pushed by a GP9 on the rear rolls into the stop at Waltham, MA. The operator at Waltham Tower has no orders for the train, so the lo... (more)

A solo Penn Central RDC covering a midday branchline run between Boston and Needham Heights, MA, pauses at Needham Junction, in former New Haven territory. The operator has set the lower quadrant ... (more)

Early summer in Finland. The Pacific #1009 is running through a nice flower bed on the line between Lahti and Loviisa.

MBTA F40 1005 rolls through Shirley, MA, with a Boston-Fitchburg commuter train on a fall morning.

Displaying the classic profile of an EMD cab unit, MBTA FP-10 1152 speeds through Shirley, MA, on the point of a Fitchburg-Boston commuter train. MBTA 1152 began life as a Gulf, Mobile & Ohio F3 b... (more)

The Hyvinkään-Karkkila 2-8-2T no. 5 has been built by the Tampella works in 1917. It was the first loco to be built in Finland after the country achieved its independence from Russia in 1917. Sh... (more)

The Hg class electric locomotive #756 has been built by ASEA in 1947. The engine is seen here in the Falun shed.

The original pre-Guilford Springfield Terminal Railway was a 5.4 mile ex-interurban line connecting Springfield, VT, with Charlestown, NH, and its sole locomotive for may years was brightly painte... (more)

Springfield Terminal Railway 44-Tonner #1 conducts interstate commerce as it hauls a propane tanker off the Connecticut River rail/highway bridge connecting North Charlestown, NH, with Springfield... (more)