The excursion at the American Association of Rail Superintendents (AARS) was a day-long trip across New Jersey. After discharging its passengers at Newark Penn Station at the end of the special,... (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)

A pair of Classic EMD Streamliners rest inside the NCTM Roundhouse.

Wabash E8 1009 has been right at home for 3 years at the Virginia Museum of Transportation following an outstanding restoration prior to it's ride to the grounds. I am told that this was also EMD'... (more)

Ex-CB&Q E8 No. 9949 makes a station stop at Vancouver on the point of a Portland-Seattle train. Note the crew talking with someone on the platform.

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)

Penn Central was a year old in June 1969 but this scene at Poughkeepsie carried on the New York Central heritage. E8s 4066-4093 have arrived from Croton-Harmon on a commuter train out of Grand Cen... (more)

The rising sun has begun to burn off the morning fog in the Winooski Valley as Amtrak's northbound Montrealer makes its 6 AM stop at Montpelier Jct., VT, with the usual pair of E8s up front. The d... (more)

The Denver Zephyr A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

A South Amboy power move has just emerged out of the subway at Union Tower as the crew heads for Meadows where the units will be serviced prior to returning to South Amboy. Included in the consis... (more)

Amtrak 333 North prepares to depart Union Station for Seattle with a Portland Terminal Alco switcher idling at right. No. 333 is ex-CB&Q No. 9941B, built in March 1950.

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)