"SPV Through the Ellis Block"

On the afternoon of November 6th, 2024, the Naugatuck Railroad's former CTDOT Budd SPV-2000 "NAUG 1001" was towed by Berkshire & East... (more)

"SPV Returns to the Springfield Line"

On the afternoon of November 6th, 2024, the Naugatuck Railroad's former CTDOT Budd SPV-2000 "NAUG 1001" was towed by Berkshir... (more)

Constitution Liner Cab Car. Naugatuck Railroad SPV-2000 no. 1001 brings up the rear of a Railroad Museum of New England excursion train bound for Torrington, seen passing a disused sidi... (more)

Southbound SPV. Naugatuck Railroad no. 1001 is seen on the south end of a Railroad Museum of New England excursion train crossing the Thomaston Dam. The car is one of 31 SPV-2000 cars b... (more)

Constitution Liner in the Constitution State. Connecticut DOT SPV-2000 no. 1001 (Budd, 1980) is seen in the yard at the Danbury Railway Museum. These "Self-Propelled Vehicles"... (more)

A pair of Metro-North SPV-2000s move through the yard adjacent to the Croton-Harmon shop. Budd assembled only 31 examples of this decidedly unsuccessful successor to the well-received Rail Diesel... (more)

After they were removed from Springfield-New Haven service due to unreliability, a couple of the Amtrak/Connecticut DOT Budd SPV-2000s worked in commuter service for Metro North on the Waterbury a... (more)

A pair of Amtrak/CDOT Budd SPV-2000 railcars running as a New Haven-Springfield shuttle buzz through Wallingford, CT. The SPVs would later be converted to unpowered coaches for Shore Line East ser... (more)

Near the end of their short tenure on Amtrak's Hartford/Springfield line, a pair of Budd SPV-2000 railcars cant into a curve south of Berlin, CT, on their way to a mainline connection at New Haven... (more)

The setting sun cast a red glow as a pair of Amtrak/CDOT SPVs out of Springfield, MA, eased up to their mainline connection at New Haven station, where passengers will transfer for New York and po... (more)

After the Connecticut DOT-owned, Amtrak-painted Budd SPV-2000s proved unreliable on the New Haven-Springfield runs for which they were purchased, they had a short second life working for Metro Nor... (more)

The last of the late season snow still clings to the roof of the 1903-built former New Haven RR station at Derby, CT, on a spring afternoon, as a Connecticut DOT-owned Budd SPV working for Metro ... (more)

During their fairly short tenure on Amtrak's Springfield line, a pair of Budd SPV-2000s running as a Springfield-New Haven shuttle pause at Berlin, CT. The former New Haven station here, built in ... (more)