As they had been doing every day since 1930, a set of former Lackawanna heavyweight MUs comes to a stop at Short Hills, NJ, en route to Hoboken. The indestructable 40-year-old cars had more than a... (more)

The pair of Alco S4s in charge of the Green Mountain's daily freight between Bellows Falls and Rutland have almost reached the top of the big grade that crests at Summit as they slowly grind uphil... (more)

A Maine Central U18B that has arrived from Portland on Mountain Division train RY-2 rests outside the station at St. Johnsbury, VT. In the morning it will be on its way back to Rigby Yard.

On a rainy November day, Napierville Junction Railway RS-2 4051 gets its train underway out of CP's St. Luc Yard outside Montreal on its way to Rouses Point, NY. The NJ was a Delaware & Hudson sub... (more)

VIA was still a few years in the future when this A-B set of classic MLW cab units led a Canadian National Ottawa-Montreal train into the station at suburban Dorval, Quebec.

A pair of bright blue GP40-2s and a GP38-2 head up Boston & Maine train POME (Portland, ME, to Mechanicville, NY) as it makes its way west through Fitchburg, MA, on the B&M mainline.

Conrail train TV-9 (Boston-Chicago) rolls west through Weston, MA, behind the usual GE trio, today a pair of GE C30-7s and a C32-8. Some mixed freight has been included ahead of the trailers.

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.

With a mix of EMD and GE power led by a PC GP38, Conrail train SENH (Selkirk to Cedar Hill via Beacon, NY, and Danbury, CT) rolls through the station at Milford, CT. This was the last heavy road f... (more)

A U33C and two U30Cs growl west through Natick, MA, on the former Boston & Albany with a Selkirk-bound Conrail freight out of Boston. Conrail was just over a year old and the paint shop had a lot ... (more)

A Soo Line freight behind a pair of year-old SD60s has arrived at the Milwaukee yard and it's time for the crew to book off.

On a fine spring day, the daily freight on the Chicago & North Western's Waukesha-Madison branch makes its leisurely way west through Wales, WI, behind a chop-nose GP7 and a GP9.