On a fall day seven months before Amtrak would take over, a pair of Penn Central Empire Service trains headed up by ex-NYC E8s meet at the Albany-Rensselaer station.
Trailing a mix of former New Haven and Pennsylvania equipment, a Penn Central GG1 speeds through a tunnel of catenary bridges as it leads a Washington-Boston train through Stratford, CT.
Penn Central FA1 1330, formerly New Haven 0401, displays its classic Alco cab profile as it pauses in front of Broadway tower in South Boston, MA. It was part of an A-B-A set that had just arrived... (more)
Bound for Grand Central, a former New Haven FL9 speeds south along the Penn Central Harlem Line near Hartsdale, NY, on a summer afternoon. By the early 1970s the original NH nose logos on some FL9... (more)
Amtrak quickly replaced the ex-NYC electrics that handled Empire Service trains in and out of Grand Central Terminal with borrowed Penn Central FL9s. PC-patched 5001 was on its way north through S... (more)