As the sun drops low on a fall afternoon, a westbound Boston & Maine freight led by GP40-2 315 grinds through Shirley, MA, with a cloud of sand indicating that the engineer is looking for better t... (more)
The brakeman and engineer on a helper locomotive watch the Louisiana World's Fair Daylight pass by in Dunsmuir, California. The T-2 is only four years old. Thanks to the "EL PASO" lettering on t... (more)
The remains of a turntable pit at Signal Butte on the McCloud Railway are somewhat deceptive. The turntable that was here was relatively small, and was only used for speeders and maintenance of w... (more)
A month before the Penn Central takeover, a pair of New Haven FL9s pass the night at the Dover Street yard in South Boston. In the morning they will head up New York-bound trains on the Shore Line... (more)
On the New Haven Railroad's final night, in the line's headquarters city, EP-5 electric 371 awaits its next run to Grand Central terminal. The horrible condition of 371's paint symbolizes a railro... (more)