This Penn Central freight out of Selkirk Yard was southbound at Beacon, NY, on a summer afternoon, about to diverge from the Hudson Line onto the former New Haven Beacon Branch in order to head ea... (more)

A westbound freight on Penn Central's ex-New Haven Maybrook Line climbs the hill at Stevenson, CT, behind a mix of four axle and six axle GEs. The lead unit, PC U25B 2685, is the former NH 2525, t... (more)

In 1969 Penn Central still originated and terminated several freights a day in the ex-NYC yards along Manhattan's West Side freight line. As the summer morning sun burned off the night's Hudson Ri... (more)

Penn Central train 62 between Chicago and New York was the nameless successor to the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and the ancestor of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited. On a hazy summer ... (more)

Freight action on the Northeast Corridor finds an RS-11 powered local passing a freight that's about to enter Waverly Yards in Newark. PC 7627 was built in 1957 and was retired within a year of C... (more)

On a hazy summer morning two years before Amtrak, Penn Central train 81 between New York and Albany comes off the Harlem River lift bridge and enters the Bronx behind an ancient-looking P2b electr... (more)

In Amtrak's first summer, Penn Central P2b class electrics built in 1929 and 1930 for the Cleveland Union terminal electrification still powered Empire Service trains south of Croton-Harmon. This ... (more)

Penn Central FA1 1333, formerly New Haven 0428, was one of PC's last four active Alco cab units along with three ex-NH mates, and it worked in home territory until the end. Minimally repainted in ... (more)

When New York Central 41788 was built in the Despatch Shops at East Rochester, New York and began service in 1956 it was used as an automobile hauler before today’s multi-level auto racks were f... (more)

Jersey Arrow II cars still lettered for Penn Central have just exited the Hudson River Tubes minutes after departing Penn Station. 70 Arrow II cars were built by General Electric in 1974.

Shortly after Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, several NH RDCs received this quickie patch paint job in which the NH heralds on the ends of the cars were obliterated with a swath of PC gr... (more)

Hot traction motors meeting cold snow makes a burst of steam as an eastbound Penn Central freight enters snow-covered Selkirk Yard on the day after a major storm. The power is an F7/GP35/SD40 mix.

On the day after a major snowstorm, a westbound Penn Central freight slowly makes its way out of Selkirk Yard past some of the snow removal equipment that helped keep things open. A lashup of two ... (more)

Penn Central train NHSE gets underway out of Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, on its way to Selkirk via Springfield, MA, behind a minimally repainted pair of ex-New Haven diesels, a Century 425 a... (more)

A NY&LB train is southbound thru North Elizabeth with PC4876 on the point. The station shelter and milepost are relics from the Pennsylvania RR era. Date is approximate.