As a young railfan supervises, the crew of New Haven Railroad local freight NX-18 out of Plainville, CT, switches at Milldale station on the now-abandoned Canal Line branch. An SW1200 was the regu... (more)

This hard-working machine, MBTA 3626, was a side-dump trolley work car used to haul ballast and dirt for track maintenance. It had an incredibly long service life. It was built by the Differential... (more)

Having departed from the Arborway terminal and ducked under the New Haven RR mainline, a pair of MBTA PCCs venture out onto South Street in Jamaica Plain on their way downtown via Huntington Avenu... (more)

A pair of the New Haven's boxy EF-4 class freight electrics await their next run to New York at the Cedar Hill engine terminal in New Haven. Built for the Virginian Railway in 1956 and 1957, these... (more)

New Haven RS-3 535 poses with a group of U25Bs and Century 425s at the Maybrook, NY, engine terminal during the railroad's final summer. Once one of the NH's most important freight gateways for tr... (more)

Penn Central didn't like to spend unnecessary money on paint. Former New York Central RS-3 5333 had its old road name and herald painted out and went back to work in complete corporate anonymity. ... (more)

This weary-looking Alco high hood switcher, built in 1939, was one of Penn Central's oldest diesels, edged out only be a few ex-NYC SW1s. Former New Haven HH-660 0924 got a new number and a patche... (more)

Up until the arrival of the M2 class modern MUs in the early 1970s, the New Haven's electrified New Canaan branch had the look of a country interurban in off-peak hours as a single car covered the... (more)

A set of former New Haven Pullman-Standard MUs running as a Penn Central Stamford-Grand Central local swings into the station at Rye, NY, on a winter day. The unique triangular catenary, since rep... (more)

A two-car South Shore Line train en route from Chicago to Michigan City pauses at the classic little station at Beverly Shores, IN. Both the station and the cars date to the late 1920's, when the ... (more)

Elderly South Shore Line interurbans that have passed their fiftieth year in service wait out the midday traffic lull at the old Randolph Street Station in Chicago. This open-air area was complete... (more)

Amtrak train 449, the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited, rolls west through Ashland, MA, on the former Boston & Albany, behind the usual pair of E8s. At Albany it will combine with the New ... (more)

A set of Amtrak Northeast Corridor work train power in the form of GP9 764 and GP7 778 waits out the winter night in the station at Providence, RI. Lead unit 764 was built in 1954 as Union Pacific... (more)

With the usual GP9 up front, Boston & Maine train WA-1 parallels the Naugatuck River in Naugatuck, CT, southbound on Metro North's Waterbury branch. At the time this Waterbury-based local served c... (more)

A quartet of Boston & Maine GP9s lead train EDSA (east Deerfield to Salem, MA) past the Tufts University campus in Medford, MA. Most of the cars will be set out in the B&M's Boston freight yard in... (more)