An SD45/SDP45 duo accelerates a westbound freight out of the Erie Lackawanna's Port Jervis, NY, yard on a fall morning. The EL's SDP45s were not built for passenger service, but made use of the lo... (more)

It's not the Fourth of July, but this old Alco is doing a good impression of a sparkler as it works the waterfront trackage along Atlantic Avenue in Boston. Penn Central S2 9859 is obviously of Ne... (more)

Most probably the Golden State. A Roger Puta Photograph

Back when Pittsbugh's P&LE station was a station rather than a restaurant, Baltimore & Ohio train 8, the Shenandoah, gets underway for Washington behind E8 1465, a former C&O unit. This was the pr... (more)

New Haven FL9 2044 could use some fresh paint on its nose, but that's now up to its new owner, Penn Central. A couple months after the PC takeover this FL9 pair led a westbound Boston-New York tra... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Crossing the Chicago River

Wearing the SEPTA paint scheme, the ex Reading push-pull train pauses to pick up passengers at Phoenixville, PA

During the first season of operations after its move from Vermont to Pennsylvania, Steamtown’s trains travelled between Scranton and Elmhurst, which was the location of the first available sidin... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

After the demise of the 178-mile Lehigh & New England Railroad in 1961, all except two segments of its trackage were torn up. The remaining segments, a segment from Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, to the r... (more)

UP Northern 823 and Big Boy 4006 double head a freight west from Cheyenne towards Sherman Hill.

Assorted FL9s and a paint-shedding EP5 electric gathered at New Haven Motor Storage a few weeks into Penn Central's operation of the New Haven. FL9 5006 now wears its PC number but the scene is ot... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder slows to a stop at Winona, MN after making a quick run up from La Crosse, WI on Milwaukee Road's route of the Hiawathas. This train was typical of the look that lingered th... (more)

An FEF Northern at speed out of North Platte