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.

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.

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.

Two months into Penn Central operation, New Haven RS3 556 leads a local freight through the NH's South Boston coach yard with Broadway Tower (once equipped with over 400 levers) in the background.

Penn Central RS3 5230 heads up the weekday Pittsfield-Adams local northbound at Lanesboro, MA, on the former Boston & Albany North Adams branch. In PC days the Adams-North Adams portion of this br... (more)

The front porches along Scull Street in Lebanon have a front-row seat for action on the old Reading Lines. In this view, an ex-Reading SW1001 is headed for the Bethlehem Steel plant, passing by n... (more)

Six months into Conrail, an unpatched Penn Central (ex-NH) Alco RS-11, a couple boxcars, and a caboose make up a compact local freight preparing to depart Hopewell Jct., NY, on the former NH Maybr... (more)

Sporting white flags as appropriate for an extra, the Central Vermont's daily Brattleboro (VT)-Palmer (MA) local freight cruises south near Vernon, VT, behind one of the CV's classic "torpedo... (more)

When delivered by MLW in 1974, Providence & Worcester M420Ws 2000 and 2001 represented the first US examples of the wide cab design (known then as a "Canadian cab") that is now universal... (more)

Conrail was a few months old as this Penn Central RS11/GP9 pair led a southbound local freight through the station at Elizabeth, NJ. Both locomotives are ex-PRR, still working in home territory.

New York Central RS3 5258 and the local freight that covered the Pittsfield-North Adams branch approach a cut that still holds traces of the winter's last snow on the northbound run. This part of ... (more)

Penn Central GP9 7549, a former New Haven unit, was assigned to local freight duty out of Middletown, CT, when photographed in April 1971. This boiler-equipped Geep was later among the GP9s sold t... (more)

From 1970 onward, a feed mill at Manchester, CT, marked the end of trackage on the former New Haven RR Midland line between Hartford and Willimantic. A Penn Central RS-3m now working for Conrail s... (more)

During Conrail's first summer, the local freight out of Plainville on the ex-New Haven Canal Line passes the former station at Milldale, CT, behind EMD-engined Penn Central RS-3m 9973. The tracks ... (more)

Boston & Maine SW9 rumbles through the woods and across a country road in Groton, MA, with the Hollis (NH) branch local out of Ayer, MA. This 11-mile branch was abandoned in 1982 and is now a rail... (more)