On a hazy summer evening, several GP7s showed up in Port Jervis still wearing the post-merger black and "light imitation gold" paint. These former Erie units lacked dynamic brakes. Th... (more)

Repeating a scene that has been a daily occurrence for over a half-century, a set of former DL&W MU cars has cleared the Bergen tunnels, and will begin negotiating its path to the correct track at... (more)

With an aging, ailing motive power fleet, Guilford scoured the used locomotive market for bargains. One source was the Detroit Edison fleet of SD40’s and U30C’s. The B&M got one of the GE’s,... (more)

Maine Central GP7 579, still in its original 1952 paint, stands in front of the freight house in Rockland, Maine in 1977. The unit was chop nosed and painted in MEC’s gold/green scheme in 1980, ... (more)

Six weeks before the end of the railroad, New Haven local freight BX-22 gets underway out of Readville, MA, headed out the Midland line to Franklin and Milford with GP9 1220 in charge. Today this ... (more)

Boston & Maine SW1 1128 and the crew of the Bemis Branch local freight run around a boxcar before easing it into an industrial spur in Waltham, MA. This short branch was a stub-end remnant of the ... (more)

A GP9 duo leads Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) south through Greenfield, MA, past an old lineside phone box from the pre-radio era. The 1800-series number ... (more)

Power line up at Rigby Yard.

Only lasted a year. NYSW ALCO #206 was rebuilt and placed into service in early 1985. Unfortunately, it only ran for about a year before suffering a major engine failure and being permane... (more)

The Jefferson Connection is in its last months of operation and of its very existence as a southbound detour train around Belden Hill enters that Former Erie main line at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. ... (more)

Reading and Northern SD50's 5014 and 5017 leads train NRFF across Hometown Highbridge, with freight bound for Jim Thorpe from North Reading.

Late on a fall afternoon a trio of Boston & Maine GP9s roll train SPCP (Springfield, MA, to Newport, VT, via B&M/CP) north through Greenfield, MA, on the Connecticut River Line. This train usually... (more)

In the mid-1960s, the Maine Central had enough local business in Rockland, ME, to station a yard switcher there in addition to the power for the local freight to Brunswick. Alco S4 314 rested in f... (more)

The trio of bright blue GP40-2s on the point of this Boston & Maine freight westbound at Greenfield, MA, will soon be working hard on the climb up the Berkshires to Hoosac Tunnel, which begins jus... (more)

On a late winter afternoon, an eastbound Boston & Maine freight coils through North Leominster, MA, on its way from Mechanicville, NY, to Portland, ME, behind a GP38-2/GP40-2/GP38-2 trio. New weld... (more)