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)

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.

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)

On a damp afternoon, Erie Lackawanna RS3 931 pokes its nose out of the Hoboken trainshed as it awaits its rush hour run to the suburbs.

As passengers prepare to board for Hoboken, an Erie Lackawanna train from Port Jervis, NY, enters the station at Suffern, NY. An E8 leads a string of old Stillwell coaches that would soon be repla... (more)

On a summer evening, a short northbound MBTA local out of Providence approaches the station at Canton Jct., MA, to pick up a couple waiting passengers for South Station. GP9 7555 is a former New H... (more)

Wearing its new Chessie System colors, Baltimore & Ohio passenger GP9 6607 leads an evening rush hour commuter train out of Washington Union Station. Leased Amtrak coaches make up the consist.

During the MBTA's short-lived service extension to Gardner, MA, GP9 1925 (ex-BN/NP) leads a train of depowered RDCs making the turn back to Boston. Note that the first two Budds are ex-CP cars al... (more)

In 1984 the MBTA acquired six GP9s of NP and GN heritage from the Burlington Northern to pull neutered RDCs in Boston commuter service. Ex-BN 1921 headed up an inbound train of Budds on a summer m... (more)

A Jersey Central commuter train bound from Newark to Bay Head Junction on the New York & Long Branch approaches the stop at South Amboy, NJ, behind a GP40P. These locomotives were designed for bid... (more)

The conductor looks back for latecomers as a set of former Lackawanna MUs, forty years old at the time, prepares to depart South Orange, NJ, for the Hoboken terminal.

There weren't a lot of passengers waiting for this Waterbury-Bridgeport RDC run when it called at Derby, CT, on Christmas Eve 1979. Conrail was the operator of this branchline service as a contrac... (more)

Diesels have always been banned from New York's Grand Central Terminal, but in the wake of a severe power shortage in 1983, Metro North was forced to borrow E8s from New Jersey Transit and Amtrak ... (more)