Months before PC was able to jettison passenger service under the Amtrak umbrella, one of 75 ex-PRR E8's leads this ramshackle remnant of the once great fleet past the eyes of the Operator at MG.

Penn Central 4903, leads an intercity passenger train. 18 months earlier, she pulled the RFK funeral train in her new black dress. Later, #4903 retired and moved to Texas where she is preserved ... (more)

I was standing on the station platform waiting to shoot GG1s and these strange mu cars kept showing up. They were kind of like RDCS with pantagraphs.So I gave in in and took a few shots. The ama... (more)

Fans getting shots from the old eastbound platform prior to its elimination. Note also the NYC 'Cigar Band' herald on the nose of 4045 bleeding through the Penn Central black.

Note catenary supports from when the Danbury Branch was electrified to its namesake city

Three car train of Penn Central MP54's make the station stop at Odenton, MD while holding the main on number 2 track.

Shinny E uint on a Providence local.

A Penn Central/New Jersey Department of Transportation set of Jersey Arrow II MUs head west while I await what would be my first solo train ride (on the Palmetto to Wilmington, DE, later boarded f... (more)

Albany local running past Southville station. Two coaches and One E unit filling in for two Beeliners.

After 20 years of commuter train and freight service. These old geeps got to show their stuff on 80 MPH mainline passenger service. Mr. Diesel would have been impressed

Hungry E unit on the point of another train load of Patriots Fans.

The Broadway Limited a couple months before Amtrak day.

Here is something to chew on. GP9s in high speed shorline passenger service to Hew York. These geeps are performing like E units. By this time AMTRAK had takenover PC passenger service but had not... (more)