Conrail FL9 #5039, wearing MTA's blue and yellow scheme that dated to Penn Central days, brings train 8836 south from Poughkeepsie. The train was made up of two coaches another FL9 (also in the bl... (more)

Just as the clouds moved away, Conway Scenic's Boston & Maine 1741 hooks up to the coaches for tomorrow's run.

Penn Central FL9's, 5033-5017, Croton-on-Hudson, New York. October 16, 1976. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Conrail #8830, weekend commuter service southbound out of Poughkeepsie, NY comes around the curve in Cold Spring, NY with Breakneck Ridge looming behind on May 20, 1978. It's led by two Penn Centr... (more)

On a snowy December day, the pair of ex-NH "washboard" MUs assigned to the New Canaan shuttle lay over pn the stub track at Stamford, CT. Penn Central's paint shop hasn't yet gotten to t... (more)

One of the first signs of Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven was the appearance of GG1s in NH territory as the ex-PRR motors were assigned to Penn Station trains. GG1 4923 faced off with a s... (more)

As seen from the now-closed 138th Street station in the Bronx, a Penn Central Harlem Line train bound from Grand Central to Brewster crosses the big bridge over the Harlem River. A pair of ex-NH F... (more)

On a frigid Sunday afternoon, an ex-New York Central RS-3 steams up the yard at Chatham, NY, with a Penn Central upper Harlem Line commuter train on weekend layover. Come Monday morning the train ... (more)

Conrail FL9 5034 heads up a Brewster-Grand Central commuter run passing NW Tower at North White Plains, NY. At the time this was the north end of the electrified zone on the Harlem Line and the te... (more)

Conrail FL9 5059, built in 1960 as New Haven 2059, was the last of the 7,612 F-units built by EMD. It headed up a Croton-Harmon to Poughkeepsie shuttle sandwich at the Garrison, NY, station.

A renumbered but not yet repainted ex-New Haven EP-5 electric swings through Milford, CT, with a Penn Central train that is probably a New Haven-Grand Central Terminal local. The EP-5s (PC class E... (more)

The morning mist still hangs low as Conrail FL9 5041 prepares to depart Brewster, NY, with a Harlem Line commuter train for Grand Central Terminal. Conrail was the contract operator of this servic... (more)

A set of former New Haven Pullman-Standard MUs running as a Penn Central Stamford-Grand Central local swings into the station at Rye, NY, on a winter day. The unique triangular catenary, since rep... (more)