The original New Haven U-25-B on one of the many grades through western Connecticut.
The Union Railroad turn gets pulled into the Boston Freight Terminal by a trusty old Fairbanks Morse road switcher in the second of three paint schemes this unit would wear.
Photo take from Summer Street Bridge looking North to the point where the tracks meet the water. Now a major convention center occupies this site and the tracks are gone.
This was an example of the quintessential New Haven Railroad Yard of the early 60s. It featured long freight houses, many old cabooses, tons of scrap metal, early generation ALCO’s and an outdoo... (more)
Ex-Green Mountain 400, exx-Illinois Central Gulf 1053, exxx-Gulf Mobile and Ohio 1053, nee Illinois Terminal 1053 (originally 753).
1944 Class NE-5 Pullman Standard New Haven C-627. Ex Berkshire scenic railway, exx Conrail 1946, exx Penn 19846. Built May 44. Reconditoned by Conrail 1978.
the latest restoration project in the yard.
The first and last paint schemes for the venerably FL9's shove a New York bound Metro North train along the Hudson.
