An impressive string of five New Haven U25Bs heads up an eastbound Maybrook Line freight dropping downhill through Shelton, CT. Lashups of U25Bs and Century 425s were the usual power on this impor... (more)

An early winter snow has dusted the ground as New Haven Railroad train NO-9 (New Haven/Cedar Hill Yard to Maybrook, NY) begins its climb out of the Housatonic Valley at Shelton, CT. Three U25Bs te... (more)

On a spring morning, a three-car Amtrak Metroliner set races south through North Elizabeth, NJ, while a New Jersey Transit local pauses on the northbound side. There was no mistaking the owner of ... (more)

An Amtrak AEM-7 on the point of a Washington-bound corridor train peers out from the darkness of the trainshed at Newark's Penn Station, while a New Jersey Transit F40PH and its train load passeng... (more)

The faint trace of a New York Central cigar band logo on the nose of otherwise unlettered Conrail E8 4324 marks it as one of the ex-NYC E-units that were renumbered and equipped with PRR-style cab... (more)

A Jersey Central GP40P that has newly become the property of Conrail leads a Newark-Bay Head commuter train into Long Branch, NJ. The green and blue former Burlington Northern (nee GN) coaches beh... (more)

On a bright spring day, Jersey Central GP7 1532 laid over by the old coal tower at the Bethlehem, PA, engine terminal that the railroad shared with the Reading.

The Jersey Central owned fifteen six-axle Alco road switchers, fourteen RSD4s and a single RSD5, CNJ 1615. They were often found working on the railroad's Pennsylvania lines, where the 1615 was re... (more)

Amid the clutter of a classic working roundhouse, Gulf, Mobile & Ohio RS1 1126 has somehow squeezed itself into a stall for a weekend rest. The scene was the GM&O yard in Joliet, IL.

On the eve of Amtrak, the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio operated three passenger trains each way between Chicago and St. Louis. GM&O #3, the southbound Abraham Lincoln with a 5:10 PM departure from Chicago,... (more)

Five miles out of Boston's South Station, Amtrak train 175, the Patriot to Washington, speeds along what was then the newly opened Southwest Corridor depressed right-of-way through Roxbury and Jam... (more)

An Amtrak train bound from Boston to Washington behind the usual F40 glides across the Branford River bridge at Branford, CT, on what the New Haven Railroad knew as the Shore Line. Spring is comin... (more)

A minimally relabeled ex-NYC E8 and two cars make up Penn Central New York-Albany train #81 at Garrison, NY, on a summer morning. It's passing a northbound freight that's stopped on the other trac... (more)

On one of the longest days of summer, Penn Central train #33, the westbound Juniata, drops down into Cresson, PA, after cresting the Alleghenies behind the usual ex-PRR E8. This New York-Pittsburg... (more)

Between 1984 and 1988 the Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad operated seasonal excursion service between Hyannis and a Boston transit connection at Braintree. During the first season, CC&H GP9 1210 led a... (more)