A Boston-Washington corridor train behind a burly E60CH swings through a curve at Milford, CT, on a busy Thanksgiving weekend.

Beneath a web of catenary, a northbound Amtrak train behind an AEM-7 emerges from the B&P Tunnel on the approach to Baltimore's Penn Station.

A pair of Penn Central E44 electrics running light take a shortcut to Meadows Yard via the passenger line through Harrison, NJ. Road freights did not normally operate through here.

A pair of Conrail E44 electrics hum through Monmouth Junction, NJ, with a northbound freight.

After working the yard at Ayer, a westbound Boston & Maine freight behind a four-unit EMD lashup accelerates through Shirley, MA.

An eastbound Boston & Maine freight rolls through the station at Lowell, MA, behind a GP40-2/D&H GP38-2/U33B lashup. In the background an FP10-powered MBTA commuter train prepares to depart for Bo... (more)

A westbound Canadian Pacific freight behind three SD40-2s and an M636 cants through a curve near Beaconsfield, Quebec, on its way out of Montreal.

A trio of six-axle MLWs led by M636 4720 storm west through Beaconsfield, Quebec, on the point of a Canadian Pacific train out of Montreal.

In the late 1960s the Illinois Central operated an expedited overnight piggyback service between Chicago and Memphis, trains 50 and 51, known as the Fastback. E-units were the regular power. At du... (more)

Helping the Illinois Central with a power shortage, a quartet of leased F7s snake through switches as they lead a northbound freight off the St. Louis line onto the mainline at Gilman, IL. The fir... (more)

MBTA FP10 1150 leads a trio of former New Haven coaches on a Boston-Framingham commuter train rolling through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. The wisps of steam coming from the cars sho... (more)

With the massive Fort Point Channel drawbridge as a background, EMD-engined Amtrak RS3m 106 heads for South Station to grab an arriving equipment draft, which it will pull back to the Southampton ... (more)

A Framingham-Boston commuter train of heavyweight coaches headed up by a Penn Central (ex-NH) GP9 rolls through CP11 in Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany.

A pair of Penn Central E8s working in MBTA commuter service await the evening rush hour at South Station in Boston. The reconstruction of the mid-1980s completely changed the look of this 1899 ter... (more)

As a terminal railroad, the Jersey Central owned a lot of switchers. SW9 1093 awaited its next job at the Bethlehem, PA, yard.