The twin tunnels through Breakneck Ridge north of Cold Spring, NY, have seen numerous generations of equipment come and go on the Hudson Line. In the late 1970s, the newest thing was the Rohr Turb... (more)

The coming winter is in the air as Boston & Maine train BJ-3 (Boston-White River Junction) rumbles north through Boscawen, NH, on a November morning, behind an F3/F7B/RS3 lashup. This line, the fo... (more)

For many years the Boston & Maine ran a daily transfer job between its yard at Mechanicville, NY, and the NYC/PC at Selkirk. Here a returning transfer behind an F7/GP7 duo backs off PC's Selkirk B... (more)

A westbound Delaware & Hudson freight that has just departed the Mechanicville yard slowly accelerates to track speed behind a trio of Alco Century 628s.

A grimy Alco trio consisting of of two Century 628s and an RS11 is working hard approaching the summit of the 1.31% grade of Richmondville Hill, the ruling grade on the Delaware & Hudson's Susqueh... (more)

A bleak winter day in Williamsport, MD, is enlivened by the passage of a Western Maryland freight behind an F7/RS3 lashup.

A Century 630/GP35 duo leads Reading train BH-13 (Bethlehem-Harrisburg, PA) through the interlocking at Steel Tower in Allentown, PA, on a winter morning.

On a bright summer morning, Boston & Maine train CPSP crosses the Connecticut River from Windsor, VT, into Cornish, NH, behind a three-unit lashup of two B&M GP9s and a CP C424. CPSP was a Newport... (more)

As the sun drops low on a fall afternoon, a westbound Boston & Maine freight led by GP40-2 315 grinds through Shirley, MA, with a cloud of sand indicating that the engineer is looking for better t... (more)

A month before the Penn Central takeover, a pair of New Haven FL9s pass the night at the Dover Street yard in South Boston. In the morning they will head up New York-bound trains on the Shore Line... (more)

On the New Haven Railroad's final night, in the line's headquarters city, EP-5 electric 371 awaits its next run to Grand Central terminal. The horrible condition of 371's paint symbolizes a railro... (more)

One of the Rock Island's ten Alco Century 415 centercabs rolls a transfer job past the B&O's South Chicago station on a summer afternoon.

This strange flat-faced machine was one of two unique AB6 diesels built by EMD in 1940 for the Rock Island. Basically modified E6 B-units with cabs, they were designed to run as trailing units on ... (more)

An ex-NYC visitor in former New Haven territory, Penn Central F7 1774 lays over at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT.

If I had to pick one locomotive to symbolize first generation diesels, it would be EMD's F7, some 3,849 of which were built for service in the US, Canada, and Mexico. New York Central 1783, not ye... (more)