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)

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)

"San Diegan" ready to head North to Los Angeles.

Eastbound 5354 running as Converse Norfolk Southern Coal meets Kansas City Roper Quality train KCRVQ led by Santa Fe 942

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)

Mingo Monster

A Rails Northeast article by Jay Potter, titled “The Monsters of Mingo Junction”, made the small industrial town of Mingo Junction, Ohio, a bucket list des... (more)

Last day of service July 31, 1981 marked the end of SEPTA RDC service between Philadelphia and Newark, NJ. The last northbound run is shown at Manville NJ, on a connection from ex Readi... (more)

The "Hendrick Hudson" heads for Albany, after switching from electric to diesel power (a pair of E8s) at Croton-Harmon

Penn Central train 62 between Chicago and New York was the nameless successor to the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and the ancestor of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited. On a hazy summer ... (more)

The Canadian makes its climb out of Field, BC headed up Kicking Horse Pass exiting snow sheds and a tunnel and about to traverse a slide area. Soon passengers will enjoy the Spiral Tunnels as the ... (more)

On a hazy summer morning two years before Amtrak, Penn Central train 81 between New York and Albany comes off the Harlem River lift bridge and enters the Bronx behind an ancient-looking P2b electr... (more)

In Amtrak's first summer, Penn Central P2b class electrics built in 1929 and 1930 for the Cleveland Union terminal electrification still powered Empire Service trains south of Croton-Harmon. This ... (more)

“No Surrender”
Flying the white flags of an extra, The West Virginian, an excursion sponsored by the Baltimore Chapter/NRHS, along with Railtours of America and the B&O Railro... (more)

MILW No. 22 leads a dead freight across the Columbia River at Beverly, WA. The massive bridge and train are minimized by the surrounding landscape.