The future emerging from the past, two-year-old Budd Metroliner 881 pops out of the 97-year old Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel, constructed in 1873 to provide Pennsylvania Railroad trains direct acces... (more)

At Penn Central's Wilmington repair shops, a converted GG1 is seen at the front of a line of engines waiting for maintenance. This GG1 was once PRR 4846. After a wreck, it was cut in half and turn... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

As lightweight passenger cars came into vogue on the Pennsylvania Railroad, some of the older cars ended up in maintenance of way service. Here three of those MW cars are placed east of Division S... (more)

In this Walter Schopp photo from my collection, a former New Haven EP5 is seen meeting an Amtrak passenger train led by a GG1 near Morrisville, PA.

Amtrak Metroliner train 114 blows through Odenton, Maryland on a gloomy December afternoon. Metroliner was the name attached to high-speed service on the Northeast Corridor as well as the trainset... (more)

Running from Washington to Boston, Amtrak train 176, the Senator, storms through Odenton, Maryland on the center track of the NEC.

An ex-NYC GP-35 and a GP-40 lead the daily freight from CPR's St. Luc Yard to Syracuse across the Lachine Canal swing bridge. PC, predecessor NYC and Conrail had trackage rights on the CPR from Ad... (more)

A trio of Penn Central E-units led by an ex-PRR E8 accelerate past Bank Tower in Red Bank, NJ, with an evening commuter run. Conrail was the operator of the train but it had yet to make much of a ... (more)

With pantographs reaching high, a pair of Penn Central E44s hum through Earnest Yard in Norristown, PA, with an eastbound freight on the Trenton Cut-Off.

A pair of ex-New York Central GP40's are on the ready track at the CPR St. Luc Yard diesel shop awaiting the call to head the daily freight, MV-12, from Montreal to Syracuse.

An ex-NYC U-boat and ex-PRR Alco C630 power a freight on the ex-NYC water level route. While the diesels are new, second generation machines the ice reefers on the head pin are from another era.