Amtrak is just a few days away as Penn Central train 427 between Boston and Albany, with an utterly minimal consist of an ex-NYC E8 and a single snack bar coach, accelerates west after clearing th... (more)

It's the night before Amtrak, and Penn Central train #8, the New York-Boston Merchants Limited, has completed its final run under private operation as it stands at the bumper in Boston's South Sta... (more)

Still proudly wearing its Pennsylvania keystone, GG1 4891 has just taken over Penn Central Boston-Washington train 175, the Patriot, from the pair of E8s that had brought it as far as New Haven, C... (more)

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)

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)

Penn Central SW1500 no. 9224 is parked at Ashland Avenue with NYC caboose 21023. This trackage, or at least some of it belongs to the Chicago River and Indiana Railroad, one of several transfer ro... (more)

Little snow, but icy conditions greet ten year old PC 2653, a U25B built in December 1965, and a pair of Southern Pacific SD40s at Penn Central's 56th St. Yard in Chicago, IL. In a few months 2653... (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 snow piles up in Lowell, MA, the A-B-A set of ex-New Haven Alco cab units in charge of Penn Central train LB-2 (Lowell, MA, to Boston via Framingham) prepares to get underway with interchange c... (more)

Penn Central SD45 6152 of Pennsy heritage is parked with other power on a bone chilling day at 56th St. Yard in Chicago, IL. The bankrupt carrier was only four months away from becoming Conrail, a... (more)

Penn Central GP40 3114 leads a caboose hop under the Rock Island overpass at Blue Island, IL on Chicago's south side. The hop is likely headed to one of several major yards connecting with western... (more)

This shot was taken around 1969 or 1970, shortly after the transition from NYC to PC. The view is looking east on the Michigan Central Porter Branch, with the N&W ex Wabash 4th District crossing i... (more)

Paoli, 1975; a 2-car train of eastbound Silverliner IVs is preparing to leave the old PRR 1953-built station and shelter. Major improvements are underway here today, with the two center tracks al... (more)