On a long summer evening, a former New Haven EP-5 class electric, now a Penn Central E40, races through Milford, CT, with a Grand Central-New Haven rush hour commuter train. These big GE motors we... (more)

As dusk settles over the Berkshires, Penn Central train 427, the nameless successor to the New York Central's New England States as the railroad's overnight connection from Boston to the Midwest, ... (more)

Penn Central train 72, a Buffalo-New York Empire Service run, gets underway for Grand Central out of the original Albany-Rensselaer station behind a pair of E-units. Tired-looking E7 4030 is an ex... (more)

The consist of Boston-Washington train 175, the Patriot, is still all New Haven, including the two FL9s up front, but a brand new sign on Kingston tower (formerly known as SS 133) indicates that ... (more)

A former New Haven FL9 that has been renumbered but not yet repainted by Penn Central heads up a short New Haven-Springfield train passing the south end of Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, headed no... (more)

From 1898 until the terminal's major reconstruction in the mid-1980s, banks of lower quadrant semaphores protected the approaches to Boston's South Station. Penn Central E8 4268 led a Providence-b... (more)

The evening rush hour is underway as an ex-PRR E8 accelerates a Providence-bound Penn Central commuter train out of South Station past Boston Terminal Tower 1. This area is completely changed toda... (more)

Given today's crowds on Metro North, it is noteworthy that in the late 1960s, commuter business on Penn Central's Hudson Line was light enough that two-car MU trains were sufficient for off-peak s... (more)

Empire Service trains under Penn Central were rather modest affairs. Albany-New York train 80 consisted of an E8 and just two cars as it emerged from the short single track tunnel at Garrison, NY,... (more)

A pair of unaltered New York Central E8s pause at Elkhart, IN, on the point of Chicago-New York train 64, Penn Central's morning departure for the east via the ex-NYC mainline. Two coaches and a d... (more)

A pair of Penn Centralized FL9s lead a lengthy Grand Central-New Haven evening rush hour commuter train through Milford, CT. The relatively poor acceleration of the FL9s as compared with electric ... (more)

The era of traditional mail and express trains was winding down in 1968, but some healthy-looking ones still ran in Penn Central territory. New York Central E8s 4041-4051 led Boston-bound mail tra... (more)

The weekday afternoon train to Chatham sets out from "North White" on a murky August day.

This Penn Central train was basically the pre-Amtrak ancestor of the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited. NYC/PC trains 427 and 428 operated between Boston and Albany, connecting at the latte... (more)

Former New Haven "washboard" MU's kick up the powder as they head towards Grand Central Terminal.