The Portland Terminal Company was a Maine Central subsidiary that handled local switching in Maine's largest city with a fleet of Alco switchers and also ran Rigby Yard in South Portland on behalf... (more)

Trailing a mix of former New Haven and Pennsylvania equipment, a Penn Central GG1 speeds through a tunnel of catenary bridges as it leads a Washington-Boston train through Stratford, CT.

On a cold winter morning at Boston's South Station, commuters who have just arrived from the suburbs behind MBTA FP-10 1109 stream towards the warmth of the concourse.

Penn Central FA1 1330, formerly New Haven 0401, displays its classic Alco cab profile as it pauses in front of Broadway tower in South Boston, MA. It was part of an A-B-A set that had just arrived... (more)

In Conrail's first summer, a trio of six-axle GEs led by U33C 6551 head up a westbound freight out of Boston's Beacon Park Yard at Ashland, MA, on the former Boston & Albany.

Amtrak RS-3 136, a former NYC/PC unit, heads up a short work train at Hartford, CT, with the city skyline in the background.

A Conrail B23-7 departs the clutter of the Croton-Harmon yard with a Hudson Line work train on a spring morning.

Working as a South Station switcher, Amtrak RS-3 137 pulls the recently arrived consist of the Lake Shore Limited across the Fort Point Channel bridge on its way to Southampton Street coach yard i... (more)

One of the two bug-eyed Bombardier LRCs leased by Amtrak in the early 1980s pulls into Route 128 station in Westwood, MA. It was running from Boston to New Haven as the Beacon Hill, a semi-local r... (more)

One of Amtrak's five HEP-equipped E8s pulls into the classic 1887 station at Hartford, CT, on its way from New Haven to Springfield with a two-car shuttle run. Amtrak 495 was an ex-PRR unit rebuil... (more)

As the sun drops low, a trio of Boston & Maine GP9s power train SAED (Salem to East Deerfield, MA) through West Medford, MA. At the time this train handled much of the B&M's freight business in an... (more)

This was once a common sight across the country, now rare: a classic EMD switcher working an urban yard. Boston & Maine SW9 1231 shuttled cars at Mystic Junction in East Somerville, MA, on a sprin... (more)

Trailing a variety of classic equipment including two domes, a pair of Amtrak SDP40Fs storm through Auburn, WA, with train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, just beginning its long trek from Sea... (more)

Having cleared Amtrak on a siding, a Burlington Northern freight behind an A-B-A set of F-units led by ex-NP F7 720 ventures out onto the mainline and departs Auburn, WA, on a typically misty day.

A grimy Amtrak E60CH leans into the reverse curve at Elizabeth, NJ, as it powers one of the long distance trains on the last lap into Penn Station.