Shore Line East service from Old Saybrook slows for the approach to New Haven Union Station.

An A-B-B-A set made up of former NYC F's and PRR GP-9B's, assigned to gravel train service, waits for a crew in the shadow of New Haven's iconic Coal tower. Photographer Ken Patton visited New Hav... (more)

CT-DOT power and train sets sit quietly behind the New Haven shops. Taken with permission. Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG

One of the Amtrak "Swedish Meatballs" undergoes repairs at the New Haven facility.

The Springfield train arrives in New Haven with a shop converted Budd Cab car leading the consist.

Train wrecks seem to be popular on RP. How about a train wreck of a color scheme? Amtrak was still in its relative infancy when its classic RDCs and GG1s were subjected to cruel and unusual pigm... (more)

The shop building (now gone), and perhaps the rails, date to the days of the New Haven Railroad. And while the unit is of the era as well, the NH owned FL9s, not F7s. Rather, the NH-painted 6691 ... (more)

It's 1 AM as two ConnDOT F7s and a GP38 painted to honor the New Haven RR wait in the old New Haven shops until needed for their next Shore Line East commuter runs. Even though the New Haven neve... (more)

An O-gauge New Haven F3 done up in Herbert Matter's Knoll and Associates patch scheme enjoys being on display in the beautiful Cass Gilbert-designed New Haven Connecticut station on Amtrak's 3rd N... (more)

One of the ten Baldwin Hudsons built in 1937 for the New Haven RR prepares to work the 155 miles to Boston in c1939. Photographer unknown scanned from a post card size negative.

Amtrak's "Merchants Limited" approaching its New Haven station stop

For some reason, to my eyes the classic New Haven paint scheme and snow seem made for one another.

Exactly what Amtrak DIDN'T need - another East Coast snowstorm. While the areas north and east of New Haven all the way up to Boston escaped fairly lightly, the remainder of the Northeast Corrido... (more)