A four-car set of Penn Central Metroliners now operated by Amtrak reaches for the wires as the train hums along at Iselin, NJ, on its way from New York to Washington. In early 1972 Amtrak was stil... (more)

On a cold winter day, Amtrak F40 208 is ready to depart Boston's South Station with a Washington-bound corridor train. A complete reconstruction of the station was imminent, and today high level p... (more)

A pair of Amtrak F40s have arrived at New Haven, CT, from Boston, and they will now give way to the AEM-7 that will take their train on to New York and Washington. The New Haven station at left wa... (more)

A Boston-Providence commuter train operated by Conrail for the MBTA accelerates away from the stop at Canton Junction, MA. Conrail took over from Penn Central six months earlier and equipment owne... (more)

An ex-PRR E8 with a Penn Central Washington-Boston train pauses at Providence, RI, a year before Amtrak. The first car behind the engine is an ex-NH parlor/lounge. The distinctive Art Deco office ... (more)

A New England rail tradition for many years was the February snow train excursion over the Boston & Maine between Boston and North Conway, NH, that was sponsored by the Boston chapter of the Railr... (more)

On a nasty winter day, MBTA F40 1008 and its inbound Eastern Route commuter train cross the B&M Charles River drawbridge and enter Boston's North Station.

Windblown snow adds to the general meteorological unpleasantness as a pair of ice-encrusted MBTA commuter trains behind an FP-10 and an F40 await their departures from Boston's old North Station. ... (more)

Penn Central Century 630 6327 poses for a portrait during a crew change stop at the Springfield, MA, station, while on the point of a westbound freight. The big Alco had been built for the Pennsyl... (more)

One of Penn Central's ex-PRR Century 630s fronts a five unit, three builder lashup getting underway out of the West Springfield, MA, yard ,heading into the Berkshires en route to Selkirk on the fo... (more)

As seen from the familiar perch of the Bear Mountain Bridge walkway, an Amtrak Turboliner running as an Empire Service train makes its way up the Hudson Valley on an early spring day.

On a day when an F40/Amfleet set is substituting for the Turbo equipment indicated in Amtrak's timetable, the eastbound Empire State Express pulls into the station at Amsterdam, NY, on its way fro... (more)

A three-car set of former Reading RDCs bound for Reading Terminal in Philadelphia loads passengers under the trainshed of Penn Station in Newark, NJ, as a Jersey Central train pulls in on the adj... (more)

Two of the Reading's ten Alco Century 424s lead a Philadelphia-bound piggyback train through Abrams Yard outside Norristown, PA.

An MBTA Lowell-Boston commuter train behind FP-10 1102 passes stopped Boston & Maine freight EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) led by GP18 1755. The action occurred just outside the North Billeri... (more)