After working the yard at Ayer, a westbound Boston & Maine freight behind a four-unit EMD lashup accelerates through Shirley, MA.

An eastbound Boston & Maine freight rolls through the station at Lowell, MA, behind a GP40-2/D&H GP38-2/U33B lashup. In the background an FP10-powered MBTA commuter train prepares to depart for Bo... (more)

As the crew of the stone train ties down on track 4 at South Fork PA, a mixed freight glides down grade. The PRR signal in this shot would be removed less that 48 hours later, and this was the las... (more)

A duo of SD80macs back their train (which is lead by two more 80s) into the track 4 siding at South Fork PA; while a NS hotshot intermodal whizzes by on track 3.

As the sun drops low on a fall afternoon, a westbound Boston & Maine freight led by GP40-2 315 grinds through Shirley, MA, with a cloud of sand indicating that the engineer is looking for better t... (more)

GP39-2s are the dominate power at the engine terminal.

Norfolk Southern SD80MAC 7207 shoves the the second cut of 50 coal cars through the flood-loader at the Amfire Coal Load-out in Portage, PA. Amfire receives coal from multiple mines in the area wh... (more)

Erie Lackawanna U33C 3304 and an SD45 companion have just arrived at Maybrook, NY, with interchange traffic for the former New Haven RR. Penn Central would soon reroute traffic away from this trad... (more)

Six months after the Penn Central takeover, New Haven U25B 2519 heads up a GE quartet at Maybrook, NY. Within a few years this once-busy interchange point would be quiet as PC diverted traffic awa... (more)

NECR 608 pauses in Franklin on their way south, and will soon drop the trailing GP38, number 3850, on the runaround for a ballast extra to use the next day.

A Portent of Things to Come

Susquehanna power is visiting Delaware & Hudson’s East Binghamton engine terminal in this January 1988 view. In about five months, the D&H will declar... (more)

Some of EMD's GP30's changed owners, not long after the paint dried from their previous owner. Paducah & Louisville #2259 changed owners twice, before it landed on the P&L. Originally a GM&O unit... (more)

NECR 608 heads south past a boat launch/dock in Uncasville on the Thames, with two Blue & Gold GP38's leading the way.

On a beautiful spring morning, a loaded Bow coal train with a nice SD40-2R/SD50/SD40-2 trio charges east for the Taconic Hills as it makes it's way into New England out of Selkirk Yard.

Penn Central F7A 721, former Rio Grande 5721. PC bought 10 D&RGW F units, F7A 5721 & 5754 and F7B 5712 & 5733 were mechanically sound and kept for service. The other units were sent to EMD for t... (more)