In the New Haven Railroad's final summer, a trio of U25Bs lead a Maybrook (NY)-Cedar Hill freight along the Housatonic River at Turkey Brook in Derby, CT. I took this photo from the overgrown righ... (more)

In the predawn quiet at White River Junction, VT, Boston & Maine GP7 waits out the night on the service track behind the station. In the morning it go to work with Connecticut River Line local fre... (more)

There weren't a lot of passengers waiting for this Waterbury-Bridgeport RDC run when it called at Derby, CT, on Christmas Eve 1979. Conrail was the operator of this branchline service as a contrac... (more)

With the impressive clock tower of a 19th century mill as a backdrop, an MBTA Haverhill-Boston commuter run pauses at the Lawrence, MA, station. A sharp-looking Paducah FP-10 leads a string of lea... (more)

The end was approaching for the last remnant of the Boston & Maine's Manchester & Lawrence Branch as SW1 1129 returned to Lawrence, MA, with a short local freight. At this point only a few miles o... (more)

On a splendid fall afternoon a trio of Boston & Maine GP40-2s climb up the Millers River valley at Erving, MA, on the point of train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC).

On a misty spring morning, a short Conrail freight behind a smoking SD35, a U25B, and a deadheading switcher rolls west through Wellesley Farms, MA, as an MBTA Framingham-Boston commuter train rec... (more)

Just a couple months into Conrail, train BOEL (Boston-Elkhart) out of Beacon Park Yard follows Amtrak's Lake Shore west on the former Boston & Albany, leaning into the curve at Wellesley Farms, MA... (more)

A GG1 races north through Rahway, NJ, with a Heritage consist.

Amtrak E60CP 956 hums through Milford, CT, with a 10-car corridor train out of Boston. The 956 was one of the seven E60s originally built in 1975 with steam generators for use with conventional eq... (more)

Boston & Maine GP18 1750, the first of six on the B&M roster, leads its train through the yard at East Deerfield, MA, while an Alco switcher works in the distance. I always liked the slant-nose pr... (more)

A pair of Erie Lackawanna SD45s roll an eastbound freight through the yard at Port Jervis, NY, while a switcher works in the background. The oversize auto parts cars behind the power were destined... (more)

As dusk falls on a hot and hazy day, an Erie Lackawanna SD45 fronts three other EMDs on an eastbound freight at Hammond, IN.

Diesels have always been banned from New York's Grand Central Terminal, but in the wake of a severe power shortage in 1983, Metro North was forced to borrow E8s from New Jersey Transit and Amtrak ... (more)

Lamoille Valley chopped-nose RS3 7809 arrives at St. Albans, VT, with the freight from Morrisville. At this time the LV was utilizing trackage rights over the Central Vermont to interchange at the... (more)