The new and the old. CP wide vision caboose no. 434493 gets shoved around Pt. Coquitlam by a vintage Baldwin DS 4-4-1000 updated to CP's candy cane scheme. The caboose has a longer life ahead than... (more)
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)
Built in 1952, this AS-616 has regained its former SP number. After leaving the SP system, the unit worked the Oregon and Northwestern, an eastern Oregon lumber railroad until the closing of the m... (more)
Less than two weeks before the coming of Amtrak would put it out of its misery, Penn Central train 427 rolls west through Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. A single E8 and a snack bar ... (more)