By the time Penn Central took over the New Haven RR in January 1969, much of the NH's motive power had acquired a weary look. Four months later, NH RS-3 530 and an Alco switcher passed the weekend... (more)

From 1970 onward, a feed mill at Manchester, CT, marked the end of trackage on the former New Haven RR Midland line between Hartford and Willimantic. A Penn Central RS-3m now working for Conrail s... (more)

During Conrail's first summer, the local freight out of Plainville on the ex-New Haven Canal Line passes the former station at Milldale, CT, behind EMD-engined Penn Central RS-3m 9973. The tracks ... (more)

Amtrak E60CP 974 speeds north through North Elizabeth, NJ, with a Boston-bound train out of Washington. On the tail end is a Budd SPV-2000 that will be cut off at New Haven to comprise the train's... (more)

An Amtrak corridor train out of Boston behind F40PH 350 swings through the north side of New Haven, CT, at the location known as Mill River. Until 1969 the empty catenary bridges here carried the ... (more)

On a cold winter day, a loaded Western Maryland coal train arrives at Hagerstown, MD, behind an F7/RS3/RS3/SD40 quartet. Here the pusher set on the rear that assisted it uphill from of the Potomac... (more)

In later years the Western Maryland's pair of EMD BL2s were assigned to yard jobs at Hagerstown, MD, paired with homemade slugs for extra tractive effort. WM 82, seen working here on a winter day ... (more)

The fall color is gone from the western Massachusetts hills and the November chill has set in as Maine Central U25B 226 and its EMD partners grind upgrade near Millers Falls, MA, with Boston & Mai... (more)

A Guilford-era EMD trio leads Boston & Maine train MELA (Mechanicville, NY, to Lawrence, MA) eastbound at Ayer, MA. B&M GP39-2 351 works with ex-PC/CR GP40 328 and D&H GP39-2 7409.

In the New Haven Railroad's final weeks its oldest active locomotive was Alco HH660 0924, built in 1940. Here the old high hood switcher passed the night at the Dover Street engine terminal in Sou... (more)

By the late 1960s several of the New Haven's EP-5 class passenger electrics looked like they had developed some sort of skin disease. Paint-shedding NH 373, seen at New Haven, CT, shortly after th... (more)

A trio of bright blue Boston & Maine GP9s head up train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA), eastbound on the Stony Brook branch approaching Forge Village, MA, on a nice summer day. This was one of... (more)

The pine tree on the nose of U23B 280 marks it as a Maine Central engine, but its colors are those of its original owner, the Delaware & Hudson. MEC 280, one of 15 U23B's transferred in 1983 from ... (more)

This looks like a Penn Central train, but a close look shows that the black E8 on the point carries its new Amtrak number, 279. The northbound corridor run out of Washington is about to duck under... (more)

Alco meets EMD as the Delaware & Hudson's southbound Laurentian from Montreal arrives at the Albany-Rensselaer station behind PA 19, while Penn Central E8 4051 stands by on an Empire Service assig... (more)