A meet at Ebony on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Chicago-Fort Wayne line. View east.

A GE quartet consisting of three U25Bs and a U33C head up a westbound Penn Central freight at Ashland, MA. The train is bound from Boston to Selkirk on the former Boston & Albany.

A Penn Central GG1 glides into the old station at Bridgeport, CT, with a Boston-Washington train. This NH-era station was a quarter mile east of the current Metro North platforms.

A pair of former New Haven U25Bs on the point of a Penn Central freight out of Oak Point Yard in the Bronx have completed their work at East Bridgeport Yard in Bridgeport, CT, and are on their way... (more)

On the former New Haven Shore Line, a pair of ex-PRR E8s charge through the Pine Orchard section of Branford, CT, on the point of a Penn Central Boston-Washington train. The cinder platform that I... (more)

On a fall day seven months before Amtrak would take over, a pair of Penn Central Empire Service trains headed up by ex-NYC E8s meet at the Albany-Rensselaer station.

Trailing a mix of former New Haven and Pennsylvania equipment, a Penn Central GG1 speeds through a tunnel of catenary bridges as it leads a Washington-Boston train through Stratford, CT.

Penn Central FA1 1330, formerly New Haven 0401, displays its classic Alco cab profile as it pauses in front of Broadway tower in South Boston, MA. It was part of an A-B-A set that had just arrived... (more)

Bound for Grand Central, a former New Haven FL9 speeds south along the Penn Central Harlem Line near Hartsdale, NY, on a summer afternoon. By the early 1970s the original NH nose logos on some FL9... (more)

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)

Ice-encrusted ex-NYC F7s depart Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, for the west. The "Low Wire" sign that warned employees of reduced catenary height is now superfluous since PC has remov... (more)

A trio of former New Haven U25Bs grind up Stevenson Hill on the Maybrook Line in western Connecticut, with interchange traffic for the EL and L&HR. PC had already begun routing traffic away from t... (more)

A pair of ex-New Haven RDCs running as a Boston-Franklin, MA, commuter local smoke their way through the junction at Readville, MA, about 10 miles out of South Station. Two years after Penn Centra... (more)

It's a Wonderful Life! PC 2042 leads a local from Geneva to Cayuga through downtown Seneca Falls, NY. Seneca Falls served as the inspiration of the fictional town "Bedford Falls" in th... (more)

My father and I made our last trip together to Sayre and the west end of the Lehigh Valley during my winter break from school in February 1976. My father wrote an article about this trip that may... (more)