On a Sunday afternoon in Penn Central's first summer, New York Central RS-3s gather at the Putnam Junction engine terminal in Brewster, NY, to await the Monday morning rush hour. By this time the ... (more)

The diesel-to-electric engine swap at New Haven has been completed and E60CP 966 is ready to lead this Amtrak train out of Boston onward to Penn Station. The gentleman emerging from beneath the hi... (more)

In early 1969 the Burlington Route took delivery on an order of 15 SD45s that wore this new color scheme that anticipated the impending Burlington Northern merger. Three of them headed up this eas... (more)

On a winter night at Boston's South Station, one Amtrak train from Washington has just arrived and discharged its passengers while another prepares to depart. The departing train at right is #67, ... (more)

Having just crossed from Massachusetts into Rhode Island, a southbound Amtrak corridor train bound from Boston to Washington cants through the big curve at Central Falls, RI, behind F40PH 201 from... (more)

A six-car set of Canadian National MUs bound from Gare Centrale in Montreal to suburban Deux Montangnes enters the station at Val Royal, Quebec, on a summer afternoon. These cars were retired when... (more)

A six-car set of Canadian National MUs lays over at Deux Montangnes, Quebec, the end of CN's 17-mile-long suburban electric zone, before returning to downtown Montreal. CN bought 18 of these DC-po... (more)

MBTA 4261 was the only one of the system's eight ex-PRR E8s to receive this solid gray paint job, earning it the nickname "Gray Ghost". It posed at Boston's South Station while awaiting ... (more)

As the sun drops low on a long summer evening, MBTA E8 4261 hustles a short Providence-Boston commuter local through Central Falls, RI. The 4261 was the only one of the MBTA's eight ex-PRR E-units... (more)

On a rainy November afternoon, Canadian National train 35, the Montreal-Toronto Bonaventure, rattles the old brick station at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, as it speeds west behind a pair of MLW ... (more)

With a modest burst of Alco smoke, a Canadian Pacific freight out of Montreal accelerates west past the station in suburban Dorval, Quebec. An MLW RS-18 heads up the quartet of diesels on the poin... (more)

Bay Colony S4 1058 was the only one of the railroad's five Alco switchers to receive a dark red "cranberry" paint scheme. Working here for the Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad, it leads a Hya... (more)

Late on a summer afternoon, Bay Colony S4 1061 eases a Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad excursion train off the Cape Cod Canal lift bridge at Canal Junction in Bourne, MA,, where the former New Haven l... (more)

For decades, the PRR end of the Northeast Corridor meant a steady parade of GG1-powered trains. Here Penn Central 4870 has just left Newark on its way to Penn Station, as seen from the platform of... (more)

Like a sparking, clanking, riveted dinosaur, a former New York Central P2b electric leads an inbound Penn Central commuter train through the now-closed 138th Street station in the Bronx. Ex-NH FL9... (more)