Amtrak quickly replaced the ex-NYC electrics that handled Empire Service trains in and out of Grand Central Terminal with borrowed Penn Central FL9s. PC-patched 5001 was on its way north through S... (more)
On a snowless winter day, a pair of New Haven FL9s pose next to a set of U25Bs at the Dover Street engine terminal in South Boston. Penn Central has been in control for a couple weeks but so far t... (more)
Fifty years ago tonight I was at New Haven, CT, to record the final hours of the New Haven Railroad before it was absorbed into Penn Central at midnight. On that rainy New Year's eve the final NH-... (more)