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)

On a winter morning, triple E8s power Penn Central Flexivan mail train 104 through East Chatham, NY, headed for Boston on the former Boston & Albany line. Back then dedicated mail and express jobs... (more)

Penn meets Central as E8s gather on the service tracks at Penn Central's Beacon Park Yard in Boston. The ex-NYC unit is in nice shape but its ex-PRR neighbor is shedding paint and might benefit fr... (more)

Ex-PRR SD45 6113 heads an eight units lashup of GE and GM products with a westbound freight at Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

As the evening rush hour begins, a Providence-bound Penn Central commuter train departs Boston's South Station behind an ex-PRR E8. The empty space to the left had accommodated South Station's bag... (more)

Bound for Framingham, MA, a Penn Central commuter train departs Boston's South Station beneath a bank of semaphores that dated to the station's opening in 1899. An ex-PRR E8 leads former New Haven... (more)

From 1970 onward, a feed mill at Manchester, CT, marked the end of trackage on the former New Haven RR Midland line between Hartford and Willimantic. A Penn Central RS-3m now working for Conrail s... (more)

During Conrail's first summer, the local freight out of Plainville on the ex-New Haven Canal Line passes the former station at Milldale, CT, behind EMD-engined Penn Central RS-3m 9973. The tracks ... (more)

It looks as if Penn Central must have used water-based paint for the logo on E8 4084, which could definitely use a touch-up. The ex-NYC E-unit was assigned to Boston-Framingham commuter service wh... (more)

A month before the coming of Amtrak, the power at Penn Central's New Haven Motor Storage adjacent to the station represents the usual PC mix, with an ex-PRR E8 and a GG1 joined by an ex-NH GP9 and... (more)

A Penn Central Silverliner has just passed over a rural grade crossing about 10 miles west of Lancaster, on its way to Harrisburg.

Pan view of two E-44s passing the now-vintage cars in the parking lot of Washington Boro United Methodist Church- back when you could actually see the area called Long Level across the river.

It's a cold January day in 1976 and rather weird to find a Penn Central E8 parked at their 56th St. Yard in Chicago with fellow EMD power, GP7 5609 and SD40 6060. The 4064 survived the winter and ... (more)

In its first weeks of revenue service for Penn Central, a United Aircraft TurboTrain that still wears its original DOT colors speeds through the station at Stratford, CT, bound for Grand Central T... (more)

”When Empty Return To…”

Well, maybe not this time. This Air Products and Chemicals liquid oxygen tank car is on a one-way trip to an appointment with a torch. The PC mill gon... (more)