It looks as if Penn Central must have used water-based paint for the logo on E8 4084, which could definitely use a touch-up. The ex-NYC E-unit was assigned to Boston-Framingham commuter service wh... (more)

A month before the coming of Amtrak, the power at Penn Central's New Haven Motor Storage adjacent to the station represents the usual PC mix, with an ex-PRR E8 and a GG1 joined by an ex-NH GP9 and... (more)

One of the ten Norfolk & Western (ex-Wabash) F7s leased by the Jersey Central in the early 1970s teamed up with the CNJ's own F7s to create this four-unit lashup at the Communipaw Avenue engine te... (more)

A pair of Jersey Central RS-3s working a switch job at the big CNJ/RDG yard in Allentown, PA, attach themselves to the rear of a freight. I don't remember at this point whether they were putting i... (more)

Amid fall foliage, Boston & Maine GP18 1751 rolls south on the Connecticut River Line at Bernardston, MA, with local freight ED-4 out of East Deerfield. The B&M's six GP18s were the road's first l... (more)

One of the three ex-Illinois Terminal SD39s purchased by the Guilford organization from the N&W for the Boston & Maine heads up an ex-Conrail GP40 and a native B&M GP40 on train POPY (Portland-Pot... (more)

On a warm fall day shortly after the Boston & Maine and Maine Central began pooling road diesels, B&M train POME (Portland, ME, to Mechanicville, NY) rolls west through Shirley, MA, behind two MEC... (more)

A Jersey Central GP40P pokes its nose out from under the trainshed of Newark's Penn Station as it departs with an outbound train whose first car is a private commuter club. The coming of Conrail ... (more)

A former Jersey Central GP40P now working for New Jersey Transit passes the clock tower of the old CNJ station at Elizabeth, NJ, as it heads up a Newark-Bay Head Junction commuter train on ex-PRR ... (more)

The St. Charles streetcar line of the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority is a wonderful historical flashback thanks to classic cars built in the 1920s. Ninety-four-year-old NORTA car 926 carri... (more)

A pair of MBTA "all electric" PCCs prepare to depart from the Arborway loop for a trip to downtown Boston via Huntington Avenue. Twenty-five of Boston's 346 PCCs were of this design, in ... (more)

The RDCs and the smokestack in the background indicate that Erie Lackawanna U33C 3315 is an out-of-town visitor as it lays over beneath the sand towers at the Boston & Maine's Boston Engine Termin... (more)

At Mystic Junction in Somerville, MA, a Boston & Maine freight gets underway out of the railroad's Boston freight terminal behind a GP18/GP9 duo wearing their original "bluebird" paint s... (more)

Boston & Maine train BASE (Bangor, ME, to Rotterdam Jct., NY, via MEC/B&M) rattles the old station and freight house at Rockingham Junction, NH, on a fine fall day. A B&M GP38-2 and a GP7 are team... (more)

Three Maine Central U-Boats, all acquired secondhand, will be working uphill as they depart Gardner, MA, with Boston & Maine train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC). Lead unit ... (more)