Two months before the Penn Central takeover, New Haven train 71 between Springfield, MA, and Grand Central Terminal pauses under the catenary at Milford, CT, behind a pair of FL9s. Note the two RP... (more)

New Haven FL9 2019 leads the Sunday afternoon Santa Express along the Naugatuck River at Reynolds Bridge in Thomaston.

Mid morning train slows for the tight curve past the Jenkins Valve plant on its way to Grand Central Terminal in New York.

New Haven RDC-1 32 at the Danbury Railway Museum.

Railroad Museum of New England's restored New Haven FL9 awaits the "all aboard" for the noon Fall Foliage and Pumpkin Patch train.

Railroad Museum of New England's beautiful New Haven FL9, powering a Fall Foliage and Pumpkin Patch train, basks in the sun while patrons pick pumpkins before returning to the station in Thomaston

New Haven RDC 23, so far undisturbed by the Penn Central takeover three months earlier, hums north along the Naugatuck River at Ansonia, CT, on a Bridgeport-Waterbury run. The diverging track at ... (more)

This little Penn Central train consisting of an ex-New Haven SW1200 and an old coach was informally known as the Jitney, and it shuttled the four miles between the New Haven passenger station and ... (more)

"Fall Foliage and a Classic Diesel" . One of the Naugatuck Railroad's Fall Foliage excursions passes over Chase Bridge in Waterbury, CT. The train is being pulled by the Naugatuc... (more)

As the left-handed semaphore begins to drop amid a web of wires, a set of former New Haven "Washboard" MUs running as a New Haven-Grand Central local for Penn Central approaches the station at Str... (more)

New Haven SW1200 654, not yet renumbered six months after Penn Central took over, exhales and accelerates as it approaches the short tunnels at East Haven, CT. It's heading up train BX-32, the loc... (more)

The New Haven retired the last of its classic EP-4 class passenger electrics in 1961, but three of them remained in storage until 1968, only to be cut up in the railroad's final days. Having been ... (more)

New Haven RS-3 558 rests at Waterbury, CT, in the company of an Alco switcher as it awaits its next assignment. RS-3s dominated both road freight and local jobs out of Waterbury in the 1960s. The ... (more)

Luggage-laden passengers board New Haven RDC 25 at Waterbury, CT, for a ride down the Naugatuck Valley line to a mainline connection at Bridgeport. RDCs provided all passenger service on this bran... (more)

A crowd of one awaits on the platform as New Haven RDC 21 running as Waterbury-Bridgeport train #453 pulls into the Derby-Shelton station on the Naugatuck Valley branch. Solo RDCs were the rule on... (more)