Western Maryland FA-2 303 presents the classic Alco profile as it awaits its next trip up the hill while working helper duty at Williamsport, MD. Following its retirement by the WM in 1972, this l... (more)

All four of the Western Maryland's Alco FA-2s teamed up with an F7 to push hard on the rear of a loaded coal train off the Baltimore & Ohio as it climbs Williamsport Hill en route to Hagerstown, M... (more)

Just 40 miles into its 1388-mile journey from Seattle to Los Angeles, Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight coils into Tacoma, WA, on an early spring day. The Tacoma Dome was under construction in ... (more)

It's a busy couple minutes at Tacoma Union Station as the Seattle-Portland Mount Rainier, Amtrak train 796, departs southbound while the northbound Coast Starlight completes its station work. Trai... (more)

In its first weeks of revenue service for Penn Central, a United Aircraft TurboTrain that still wears its original DOT colors speeds through the station at Stratford, CT, bound for Grand Central T... (more)

On its way from Boston to New York, one of Amtrak's three United Aircraft TurboTrains glides across the Canton Viaduct in Canton, MA, on a summer day. These high speed pioneers operated from 1969 ... (more)

On a crisp winter day, an eastbound Conrail freight with a trio of six-axle GEs climbs through the hills of central Massachusetts on the former Boston & Albany, headed for Boston's Beacon Park Yar... (more)

In the mid-1980s, three-unit sets of six-axle GEs were the usual road freight power on Conrail's former Boston & Albany line, but weekend power balancing often led to doubling up. Here six big GEs... (more)

On a misty early spring day, a pair of Reading Century 424s lead an eastbound piggyback train along the freight line parallel to the Schuylkill Expressway on the outskirts of Philadelphia. I think... (more)

A Lehigh Valley Century 628 appropriately numbered 628 (and mate 634) heads up a westbound freight that has just departed from the LV yard at Easton, PA, but is now stopped on the mainline due to ... (more)

With more than fifty years of service behind them, these former Lackawanna heavyweight MUs now employed by New Jersey Transit deserved a day of rest. They were spending the weekend laying over at ... (more)

With a puff of Alco smoke, Canadian Pacific RS-10 8572 accelerates an outbound commuter train away from the stop at Valois, Quebec, en route from Montreal's Windsor Station to suburban Vaudreuil.

A Canadian Pacific evening rush hour commuter train out of Montreal's Windsor Station slows for the stop at Valois, Quebec, on the Lakeshore route, with candy-striped FP7 4073 up front.

It's now a universal design, but when MLW delivered Providence & Worcester M420 2002 and its four sisters in 1974-75 they represented the first widecab diesels purchased by a US road. (It was call... (more)

Having swapped out cars with the Boston & Maine, the Providence & Worcester's daily Worcester-Gardner turnaround job departs Gardner, MA, with former Penn Central GP38 2011 and a mate on the point... (more)