With Worcester Union Station in the background, Conrail SD50 6737 and its workmates lead a westbound freight through switchwork.

A pair of Conrail U33Cs lead train BOSE (Boston-Selkirk) along the former Boston & Albany outside Ashland, MA. The B&A was largely six-axle GE territory during the Conrail era.

A pair of Erie Lackawanna/NJDOT U34CHs and their trains await the evening rush hour at Hoboken Terminal. The big U-boats handled all diesel trains out of Hoboken at the time.

A set of ageless Erie Lackawanna MUs pose beneath the trainshed of Hoboken Terminal, a regular sight for more than fifty years that is now becoming a long-ago memory.

On a winter afternoon, three of the Boston & Maine's six GP18s are working hard to lift westbound train BM-7 (Boston to Mechanicville, NY) through the Berkshires at Shelburne Falls, MA.

A pair of MLW-built RS3s team up on a Canadian Pacific freight that is about to depart St. Johnsbury, VT, for Newport and Montreal. The massive station here had seen its last passenger train two y... (more)

In pre-radio days railroads maintained private telephone networks with lineside phones at stations, junctions, and other key points, used by train crews to communicate with dispatchers and towers.... (more)

A pair of Maine Central GP7s await their next assignment at Rigby Yard in South Portland, ME. MEC 561 wears the original maroon and yellow paint scheme, while sister 565 has been repainted in the ... (more)

A pair of Amtrak SPV-2000s running as a Springfield-New Haven shuttle light up the night as they pause at Berlin, CT, on a quiet night. The reign of these mechanically unreliable cars on this line... (more)

One of Amtrak's pair of "Roger Williams" RDC cab units heads a Springfield-New Haven shuttle run departing the 1887 station at Hartford, CT. The cab cars were part of a unique Budd train purchased... (more)

Snow is falling hard at New Haven, CT, as the carknockers go to work to connect E60CP 974 to a Boston-Washington train that had just arrived behind an F40PH. The engine change at New Haven was acc... (more)

On a bleak winter day an unpatched Jersey Central GP7 now working for Conrail approaches the station at Cranford, NJ, with a westbound commuter train, probably a Bayonne-Cranford shuttle. A second... (more)

A Boston-Providence commuter train operated by Penn Central for the MBTA passes the old wooden tower at Mansfield, MA, as it slows for a station stop. The engineer's window of ex-PRR E8 4264 shows... (more)

Former New Haven S1 0947 got the black dip paint job that transformed it into Penn Central 9418, but no lettering for its new owner. The anonymous Alco worked a switch job at Cedar Hill Yard in Ne... (more)

A pair of Maine Central (ex-D&H) U23Bs bracket a Delaware & Hudson GP38-2 on a westbound Boston & Maine freight traversing the Stony Brook Branch near Westford, MA.