Following the Empire Builder, the North Coast Hiawatha rolls into North La Crosse for its station stop. As with the Empire Builder, which came through earlier, this train will receive a windshield... (more)

E8-powered Penn Central train #16, the Duquesne running from Pittsburgh to New York, overtakes an eastbound coal train with rear end helpers on the climb between Cresson and Gallitzen, PA.

A U25B/GP38 helper set shoves hard on the rear of a Penn Central coal train climbing the final miles to the summit of the Alleghenies. The uphill tracks are covered with sand from the countless ot... (more)

By 1970 it was rare to find an F-unit in a freight lashup on the former Boston & Albany. Here an unusual GP40/F7B/SD35 combination approaches Boston's Beacon Park Yard on the point of an eastboun... (more)

Alco switchers dominated the yard jobs at Boston's Beacon Park Yard in late New York Central and early Penn Central days. Ex-NYC S2 9649 worked the west end of the yard on a spring afternoon. Note... (more)

This is a helper set, heading away from the photographer. The caboose makes it obvious, but even without it one could tell based on the orientation of the pantographs. According to the Conrail E... (more)

What we have here is a discouraging matter of timing in that the 6406, a train of empty PPLX hoppers, had stalled at MG and had to await rescue helpers to come up from Altoona to shove. It got mov... (more)

Soviet steam engine "L" (Steam 2-10-2) is departing from Kuzhenkino station with local passenger train from Bologoe to Ostashkov. That train runs regularly by saturdays on this route unt... (more)

Flexi-Vans were an early form of intermodal containerized freight handling that was adopted in the 1960s by the New York Central and a few other railroads, utilizing specialized highway boxes and ... (more)

The eastbound Canadian climbs the Kicking Horse Pass grade in between the Spiral Tunnels as it passes under Hwy 1. The Laurentide Park brings up the rear of the 11 car summer time consist of 1976.

Just over 51 years ago nicely turned out RENFE oil-fired 4-8-0 No 240F2273 approaches Salamanca on the now closed line from Zamora with the 06.30 Astorga to Salamanca train omnibus. The handsome M... (more)

CPR rostered 20 FA-2's and 7 FPA-2's. A number were traded in on C424's in the mid-1960's but some ran for another ten years, the last one being removed from service on November 8, 1975. They di... (more)

Less than two weeks before the coming of Amtrak would put it out of its misery, Penn Central train 427 rolls west through Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. A single E8 and a snack bar ... (more)

D&H Alco PA1 19 rests at Providence yard late in the day while on lease to the MBTA