The pair of owl-eyed MP54 MUs that comprised the Princeton shuttle lays over between trips at Penn Centrak's Princeton Junction station. This short New Jersey branch was one of the last regular as... (more)

Operator Dick Herr is entering information on the Station Record of Train Movements at the 1938 vintage Union Switch & Signal Co. CTC machine governing train movements from Glen Loch through Coate... (more)

As dusk settles over the Berkshires, Penn Central train 427, the nameless successor to the New York Central's New England States as the railroad's overnight connection from Boston to the Midwest, ... (more)

Penn Central train 72, a Buffalo-New York Empire Service run, gets underway for Grand Central out of the original Albany-Rensselaer station behind a pair of E-units. Tired-looking E7 4030 is an ex... (more)

Just a few months into revenue service and doing what it was built to do, a United Aircraft TurboTrain races through Milford, CT, on its way from New York to Boston. At the time the Turbos covered... (more)

At the beginning of the Conrail era PC SD-45 6128 brings the TV-10 into Croxton yard. August 1976

A pair of former New York Central GP40s working in familiar surroundings lead an eastbound Penn Central piggyback train through Selkirk Yard on a fall afternoon.

Following the Penn Central merger, PC found a new use for some of its 25 ex-PRR RSD-12s by putting them to work as hump power in former NYC territory. A pair of the handsome six-axle Alcos slowly ... (more)

Train time at Paoli, 1975, as the Kansas City-bound "National Limited" slows to a halt. This train, which also served Columbus, Indianapolis, and St. Louis, was discontinued in 1979.

Penn Central GP30 2208 switches the former Reading yard in Rutherford, Pennsylvania. Within a few years, the yard would be closed as part of Conrail’s operational streamlining, and all Harrisbur... (more)

The setting sun is not exactly glinting off the dusty flanks of the 4809 as she and the 4855 head up an eastbound intermodal on the old PRR main. That's my dad's 1969 VW Beetle parked along old H... (more)

It's Leap Year Day 1976, about a month before Conrail, as the Penn Central's No. 4889 leads Amtrak's National Limited eastbound on the old PRR main line. Note the raised air intakes just below th... (more)

On the eve of Amtrak, ex-PRR E8 4267 leads a short Penn Central train 170 (Washington-Boston) through the Forest Hills section of Boston on its way to South Station.

At dusk, one of the original United Aircraft TurboTrains running as Penn Central train 3002 between New York and Boston glides across the Mystic River swing bridge on the Connecticut coast. These ... (more)

With Bangor & Aroostook #80 and an unknown NYC Diesel on the head end this rather short northbound freight is about 6 miles from the terminus of the former Pennsy line from Fort Wayne to Mackinaw ... (more)