One of SEPTA's ex-Reading FP7s peers out from under the Reading Terminal trainshed as it awaits its evening rush hour run up the Schuylkill Valley. Originally RDG 900, this locomotive is now owned... (more)

Framed by the transmission towers that bracket many Philadelphia commuter lines, a pair of SEPTA Silverliner IV MUs glide towards Center City, seen south of Jenkintown on the former Reading.

Penn Central was in no hurry to spend money on repainting commuter equipment, so in September 1968 this evening rush hour train train that was ready to leave Boston's South Station for Framingham ... (more)

A northbound Grand Central-Poughkeepsie train operated by Conrail for the New York MTA kicks up dust as it approaches the station at Beacon, NY, behind a pair of Conrail FL9s, with lead unit 5040 ... (more)

The waiting passengers at Brewster, NY, prepare to board a Grand Central-bound Harlem Line train on a cold fall morning, as FL9 5042 and its equipment arrive from the Putnam Junction coach yard. C... (more)

As the sun drops low, an evening MBTA rush hour train of ex-New Haven coaches behind an F40PH passes the former NH Dover Street coach yard in South Boston, now used for rapid transit (Red Line) ca... (more)

Departing Boston, an MBTA commuter train led by an F40PH crosses the Fort Point Channel drawbridge just outside South Station. This classic bascule bridge has since been replaced by a fixed span a... (more)

Up until the arrival of the M2 class modern MUs in the early 1970s, the New Haven's electrified New Canaan branch had the look of a country interurban in off-peak hours as a single car covered the... (more)

A former New Haven RDC now wearing Penn Central scare stripes glides along the Naugatuck River at Beacon Falls, CT, en route from Waterbury to Bridgeport. Budds covered all passenger service on th... (more)

A quartet of owl-eyed Pennsylvania Railroad MP54 class heavyweight MUs, the first repainted from traditional tuscan red to PC dark green, rolls though the PATH station in Harrison, NJ, minutes out... (more)

A lengthy Jersey Central commuter train has just departed the railroad's Harrison, NJ, coach yard and is on its way across the river to Newark's Penn Station, where it will pick up a load of rush ... (more)

On a long summer evening, Metro North FL9s 2011-2013 pull into the station at Garrison, NY, with a rush hour New York-Poughkeepsie commuter run. The cars they're pulling came to MN from Detroit's ... (more)

Scanned image (original on Kodachrome - camera used was a Voitlander Vitomatic) © Lindsay Bridge from The Lindsay Bridge Vintage South African Railways Collection and submitted here with permissi... (more)

Late on a summer afternoon, MBTA E8 4254 and its outbound rush hour train pause at Auburndale station in Newton, MA, on a Boston-Framingham run. The locomotive is ex-PRR, the coaches ex-NH, and th... (more)

The end was approaching for passenger service on the Boston & Maine's Central Massachusetts Branch as a solo RDC making an afternoon trip to Boston loaded passengers at the South Sudbury, MA, stat... (more)