Roughly 70 years ago, one of the Boston & Maine's oddball EMD BL2s leads a North Conway (NH)-Boston branchline local into the station at Conway, NH. The BL2s are long gone but Conway still sees pa... (more)

An ice-encrusted MBTA FP-10 has completed its run from the suburbs and lays over at Boston's North Station awaiting the next trip. The cars behind it are ex-New Haven mainline coaches.

The lower quadrant semaphores that guarded the approach to Boston's South Station from 1899 to the mid-1980s frame a departing MBTA commuter train led by an FP-10.

An MBTA commuter train consisting of depowered RDCs behind an FP-10 has just left the station at Gardner, MA, on its way to Boston. Two months later this trackage would become freight only as the ... (more)

At sunset on a summer evening, a Boston & Maine SW9 works the largely empty yard at White River Junction, VT. Milepost 14 gives the distance to Windsor, where ownership of the Connecticut River Li... (more)

A Boston & Maine local freight with a maroon and yellow RS3 on the point enters the Boston Freight Terminal yard at Somerville, MA, and concludes its run.

In Penn Central's first summer, the painters have yet to reach New York Central passenger RS3 5503 as it lays over at Chatham, NY, on the point of a Harlem Line commuter train.

On a winter afternoon, an unrepainted New York Central RS3 prepares to depart from the big yard at Selkirk, NY, with a westbound Penn Central local freight.

Framed by classic PRR-era position light signals, an Amtrak long distance train sweeps through Metropark station in Iselin, NJ, behind a blunt-faced E60CP.

In 1977, as the GG1 era was coming to an end in the Northeast, Amtrak 4935 was repainted into its original Pennsylvania Railroad pinstripe scheme as a salute to the classic motors. It led a northb... (more)

With a string of empty pulpwood flats behind its GP7, the Maine Central's Lewiston Lower branch freight approaches Brunswick, ME, on a fall morning.

Maine Central train RY-2, the daily run over the Mountain Subdivision between Portland, ME, and St. Johnsbury, VT, comes storming through the village of Sebago Lake, ME, behind a quartet of GP38s.

A trio of Penn Central E-units led by an ex-PRR E8 accelerate past Bank Tower in Red Bank, NJ, with an evening commuter run. Conrail was the operator of the train but it had yet to make much of a ... (more)

With pantographs reaching high, a pair of Penn Central E44s hum through Earnest Yard in Norristown, PA, with an eastbound freight on the Trenton Cut-Off.

Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP and B&M) rumbles south through Brattleboro, VT, behind two B&M GP9s and a Canadian Pacific Century 424. Pooled power was the norm... (more)