Amid the bustle of the Vancouver waterfront, Canadian Pacific S4 7109 works the carferry lead serving the boats that convey freight to and from Vancouver Island.

For the last time, the Delaware & Hudson's overnight Montreal Limited out of New York approaches the station at Rouses Point, NY, as an employee watches. It was the first morning of Amtrak and thi... (more)

On the first morning of the Amtrak era, the Delaware & Hudson's overnight Montreal Limited out of New York crosses the Lachine Canal outside Montreal on its final trip to Windsor Station, with PA... (more)

A New Haven Railroad 230-ton capacity steam derrick working out of headquarters in New Haven attends to a minor derailment Maybrook Line freight OB-2 along an industrial canal at Shelton, CT. The ... (more)

On a winter day, Boston & Maine train SPPO (Springfield, MA, to Portland, ME) coils off the Connecticut River Line connecting track as it approaches the yard at East Deerfield, MA, behind a pair o... (more)

A Boston snowstorm is winding down as Amtrak's South Station switch crew grabs a draft to pull it down to the Southampton Street yard. RS3M 106 was one of three Amtrak RS3s that were re-engined wi... (more)

In an industrial corner of the old Brooklyn waterfront, Bush Terminal Railroad 80-Tonner 89 advances a cut of cars while one of the BT's primitive GE/Ingersol Rand switchers built in 1931 waits in... (more)

Fifty years ago the Middletown & New Jersey was a modest 7-mile shortline running between Middletown and Johnson, NY, powered by a pair of 44-Tonners. Its days work done, M&NJ 44-Tonner 2 posed ou... (more)

For decades, an engine change at South Amboy, NJ, was a ritual for New York & Long Branch/North Jersey Coast Line trains headed to or from Penn Station. Once the crew conference is complete the Pe... (more)

A four-car set of original Metroliners races south through Princeton Jct., NY, en route from New York to Washington. In late 1971 Amtrak was the operator of the train but the equipment still belon... (more)

The pair of classic rivited ex-PRR MP54 MU cars assigned to Penn Central's Princeton shuttle await the mainline connection on the branchline track at Princeton Junction station.

In early 1968 the New Haven retired its ten Loewy-style Fairbanks-Morse H16-44s (590-599) and lined up eight of them at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, to await disposition. They would be scrapp... (more)

By 1981, the former New Haven "Washboard" MUs of 1954 were just about extinct, but this set soldiered on. Seen at New Haven, CT, it was probably assigned to New Canaan Branch shuttle ser... (more)

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)

On a frigid Sunday afternoon, an ex-New York Central RS-3 steams up the yard at Chatham, NY, with a Penn Central upper Harlem Line commuter train on weekend layover. Come Monday morning the train ... (more)