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)
Freight action on the Northeast Corridor finds an RS-11 powered local passing a freight that's about to enter Waverly Yards in Newark. PC 7627 was built in 1957 and was retired within a year of C... (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)
Penn Central FA1 1333, formerly New Haven 0428, was one of PC's last four active Alco cab units along with three ex-NH mates, and it worked in home territory until the end. Minimally repainted in ... (more)