The power for a southbound Delaware & Hudson train makes the hitch at Taylor, Pennsylvania. The rainbow lashup features a lightning stripe C420, a solid blue/yellow C424m, and a Maine Central GP3... (more)

Delaware & Hudson RS11 5007 switches the yard in Taylor, Pennsylvania. Piggyback cars with general freight and cabooses were still a not-too-uncommon sight in the mid-1980’s, but were rapidly di... (more)

There’s plenty of activity in Delaware & Hudson’s Taylor yard on this day. A Conrail-surplus U33B and a C420 are getting ready to go out on a train while an RS11 switches the yard. It the righ... (more)

CSX loaded coal train N61804 arrives in Worcester, MA after concluding the journey over CSX from the mine in Newell, MA. The train is seen passing Worcester Union Station, making it way up towards... (more)

Black Diamonds in The Berkshires 2: CSX N618 rounds a curve along the Berkshire Sub as it eases down the the eastern slope of Washington Hill.

Black Diamonds in The Berkshires: Bow, NH bound CSX N618 rounds the curve in Huntington, MA at track speed. This is the first time since the late 1990s that a dedicated coal train has run ... (more)

Western New York and Pennsylvania AC60's 6001 and 6002 greet each other during afternoon switching moves at the road's locomotive shop in Olean, NY.

A Delaware & Hudson RS11 mixes with a Boston & Maine GP18 and two GP9s on the point of B&M train EDSA (East Deerfield-Salem, MA) at Ayer, MA. Looks like the snow is a little deeper out west.

Griffith Junction in 1975. View west. Note the waiting five (5) man crew.

At first glance this looks like a New Haven RR scene, but the four-digit number on ex-NH SW1200 9190 indicates that in 1970 Penn Central is in charge at Maybrook, NY. The empty yard behind it symb... (more)

GMTX 2674 wrapping the VTR train around the bend into Eagle Bridge, NY. As they rounded the curve they had to await their signal to proceed into town to do interchange with the Batten Kill.

Eastbound Boston & Maine train SPPO (Springfield, MA, to Portland, ME) behind a GP40-2/GP38-2 duo has arrived at the big yard at East Deerfield, MA, and come to a stop at the east end yard office.... (more)

Eastbound Boston & Maine train SPPO (Springfield, MA, to Portland, ME) rolls through the center of Gardner, MA, behind a GP40-2/GP38-2 duo.

By 1970 it was rare to find an F-unit in a freight lashup on the former Boston & Albany. Here an unusual GP40/F7B/SD35 combination approaches Boston's Beacon Park Yard on the point of an eastboun... (more)

Alco switchers dominated the yard jobs at Boston's Beacon Park Yard in late New York Central and early Penn Central days. Ex-NYC S2 9649 worked the west end of the yard on a spring afternoon. Note... (more)