With light snow falling, Penn Central train PL-1 (Providence-Lowell) pauses in the yard at Framingham, MA, behind a pair of RS-3s. If you look closely you'll note that the ex-New Haven lead unit w... (more)

Penn Central GP40 3166 and PC GP35 2317 former PRR 2317.

PC GP 35 2340, former PRR 2340.

PC Alco DL640 or RS27; former PRR 2400-2414.

Penn Central SD9's 6900-6924; former Pennsy 7600 series. PC 6904 and 6906 in yard and hump service, and SD9's seldom saw mainline freight work.

Five months into Conrail, an unpatched lashup of a Penn Central GP38 and an F7 swing through South Schenectady NY, bound for Selkirk Yard. F-units were uncommon here by this time.

Penn Central was never known for colorful locomotives! A pair of minimally redecorated former New Haven units, a Century 425 and a U25B, depart the north end of Cedar Hill Yard in North Haven, CT,... (more)

A pair of Penn Central U25Bs move off the ready tracks at the Cedar Hill Yard engine terminal in New Haven, CT, on their way to work on an outgoing train. PC 2625 is a former Pennsylvania unit and... (more)

A westbound Penn Central freight on the former Boston & Albany gets underway out of the station at Springfield, MA, following a crew change. The power is an SD45/GP40/U33B/U25B lashup.

Winter is well underway as an eastbound Penn Central freight led by a GP40 and three U25Bs passes the old Boston & Albany freight house at West Springfield, MA, on its way into the yard.

On a hazy winter morning in the Susquehanna Valley, an eastbound Penn Central freight behind a pair of GP38s approaches the yard at Enola, PA.

PC E-33 4602 sits on the service track with an E-44, GG-1 & assorted diesels.

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)