New Haven Railroad GE EP-4 class (Streamliner) motor 0362 leads a passenger train into a station platform at Stamford, Connecticut, 4-7-1946. You can see the engineer in his cab window of the big streamliner motor. Notice too for some reason there is an employee seen in the rear cab window. The tracks in the foreground serve the New Canaan Branch and are also used for REA Express and mail drop off cars.

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ATSF 3751 class Baldwin (built between 1927-1929) oil burning 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive 3762 with an unidentified helper steam locomotive in front along with its head-end heavy passenger train is stopped at a station platform in late 1930's. Water is being supplied to the tender with a standpipe while an employee is seen on the tender deck controlling the water. The locomotive is being lubricated and inspected while at this station stop, while baggage mail and express shipments are being loaded. Check out the nice Boxpok drivers installed on this locomotive. This locomotive has an Elesco feedwater heater installed on its smoke box front.

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Boston & Maine Railroad 1938 Baldwin built R-1d class 4-8-2 Mountain steam locomotive 4117, and it was named Hercules. The B&M had a total of 18 R-1 class steam locomotives in various sub-classes of a, b, c & d. The five R-1d class steam locomotives remained in service until 1955-1956. They had 73 inch Baldwin Disc drivers that produced 63,900 lbs of starting tractive effort. The boiler pressure was 240 lbs and these engines were of modern design. They had 28 x 31 cylinders. These five R-1d class 4-8-2's (road number 4113 through 4117) each weighed 416,100 lbs and were some of the heaviest 4-8-2's built in the United States.

There was an original major problem with these locomotives in respect to the balancing of the Baldwin Disc drivers, however; this problem was mostly solved and the locomotives did provide good service. As the story goes, around 1937 the Baldwin Locomotive Works changed their balancing formula for drivers in relationship to standard and cross balancing of drive wheel and it was not the the correct formula to be used. Various railroads had these same balancing problems with their drives such as with the RF&P 4-8-4's, the New Haven Railroad I-5 class Hudsons and the Atlantic Coast Line R-1 class 4-8-4's along with some others. Check out the small Elephant ears and the nice Centipede tender. Notice too that the whistle is right in line with the smoke stack.

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New Haven Railroad Baldwin-Westinghouse EP-2 class motor 0326, is seen at a platform while stopped with passenger train that is loading mail at the station in Stamford, Connecticut, ca 1940. In this photo you can see the engineer, an employee delivering mail and the conductor in the background.

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New Haven Railroad open platform MU car # 4020, along with others, is being operated for the Joint Railfan Trip Committee Inc., as an Excursion train, late 1940's. You can see railfans and the excursion sign on the open platform bulkhead. The New Haven Railroad was always know for operating various railfan excursion trains along with other special excursion trains for bicycles, skiing, summer camp, theater specials, etc.

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New Haven Railroad I-4 class steam locomotive 1398 leads the southbound East Wind while it's stopped along a platform at Union Station in New Haven, Connecticut, 6-30-1940. The modernized Pennsylvania Railroad P-70 series coach coupled behind the tender appears to be a dead-head car in this consist. This train is operated by the New Haven Railroad, the Boston & Maine Railroad & the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East Wind train operated between Washington, D.C. and Maine. Shortly the I-4 steam locomotive will be uncoupled from the train and an electric locomotive will be coupled onto the train so it can continue its trip to Pennsylvania Station in New York City, and then farther on to Washington, D.C.

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New Haven Railroad ALCO DER-2a class FA-1 locomotive 0418, along with another FA-1 locomotive 0428, with both wearing the Alpert paint scheme lead a manifest freight train along side of a stainless steel washboard MUT at Stamford, Connecticut, 5-15-1967. The Stamford area was one of the busiest locations on the railroad according to tower operators. You can see the engineers arm in his cab window.

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New Haven Railroad EP-4 class GE electric locomotive # 0361 (aka: streamliner), is seen along with other electric locomotives in the Motor Storage area near by Union Station in New Haven, Connecticut, early 1940's. In the motor storage area service and maintenance activity is performed on the locomotives while they are being readied for their next assignments. Coupled to the front of the EP-4 is an EP-2 # 0321. This photo came from my collection of New Haven Railroad negatives.

Penn Central westbound passenger train with three heavyweight office business cars at the end are seen on an electrified main line express track as it passes the station at Stamford, Connecticut, 1971. There appears to be a stainless steel lightweight sleeper and also a heavyweight sleeper coupled to the office cars and separated from the rest of the train by a lightweight combine car. Those two sleepers may be part of the office train group of cars or they may be deadhead cars. The highway that's seen on the right is I-95. Bob Hughes took this photo from his tower location at SS38.

Southern Pacific Baldwin GS-1 class oil burning 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive 4406 with its passenger train is stopped at a station with mail & express shipments being loaded, late 1930's. This locomotive was sold to T&NO as No. 704 in March 1941. Further back in the train you can see numerous passengers on the rock platform area along with the employees loading baggage, express and mail. There is another steam locomotive seen in the distance along with some cars or a train to the right. To the left there is an employee in a white jumpsuit that is holding a sign that states "Men At Work." You can see the fireman's arm in his cab window.

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New Haven Railroad yard area with stored RDC's awaiting assignment at Boston, Massachusetts, ca late 1950's. There are several locomotives seen in this yard area, such as a GE U25B and possibly an ALCO RS11, plus many passenger cars are situated here too.

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Penn Central former Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 # 4934 is seen at New Haven Union Station, Connecticut, ca 1970, Bob Hughes Photo. This GG-1 has not been repainted and is still wearing a good paint job in the single stripe scheme. Numerous GG-1's, such as this later went into Amtrak service. This GG-1 is still utilizing a pantograph with a double contact shoe.

New Haven Railroad ALCO DERS-2c class RS-3 locomotives led by 0522 & 524 along with one other, is stopped with its freight train while the engineer is posing for the camera at Devon, Connecticut, ca early 1950's. The consist of this freight train appears to be made up with hopper cars, perhaps coal hoppers for a power plant?

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New Haven Railroad L-1 class 2-10-2 Santa Fe steam locomotive # 3221, is seen taking on water in its tender while at the shops in a railroad yard, ca 1940's. The locomotive is being prepared for its next rain assignment.

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Penn Central ex-Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 # 4913 is seen leading a passenger train on the former New Haven Railroad electrified main line somewhere between Glenbrook and Noroton Heights, Connecticut, ca early 1970's, Bob Hughes Photo. The train is passing through the station on an inner express track. In the background is seen the experimental arched catenary support structures that are located between Glenbrook and Noroton, Heights.

New Haven Railroad GE EP-3 class motor 0358 leads the East Wind under the arched catenary between Glenbrook & Noroton Heights, Connecticut, 1940. You can see a cab crew member standing behind the front door of the cab. Also you can see the fireman in his cab window. At this time train's cars were painted yellow with a silver window band and pin stripes. The underbody of the car's was painted black, as was the roof.

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New Haven Railroad I-class Pacific steam locomotive leads a 5 car departing passenger train from station at Waterbury, Connecticut, ca 1940's. The first car on the train is a baggage car, followed by a baggage-REA-RPO car and a heavyweight coach with 2 Osgood-Bradley Pullman Lightweight coaches following. In the background you can see the famous station tower.

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New Haven Railroad ALCO DL-109 diesel electric locomotives 0724 & 0741 are seen leading a manifest freight train through the station at Providence, Rhode Island, ca late 1940's. You can see the engineer in his cab window. In the background you can see a Pennsylvania Railroad coach, and also the Capitol building dome.

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New Haven Railroad eastbound passenger train with a Santa Fe Budd stainless steel lightweight RPO # 99 is seen in the consist as it passes tower SS38 at Stamford, Connecticut, ca 1968, Bob Hughes Photo. In 1968 the New Haven Railroad was still handling mail and they had a need for some RPO cars to replace older ones, so they leased a number of these cars from the ATSF, which were Budd built of lightweight stainless steel construction. These car also utilized the more modern design of roller bearing equipped outside swing-hanger trucks with bolster anchors, snubbers (shock absorbers) and disc brakes. In this view you may observe the vehicles on I-95 that is seen in the background.

New Haven Railroad DER-1c class ALCO DL-109's, with locomotive # 0736 in the lead, is seen while leading a departing freight train out of the yard in Providence, Rhode Island, ca 1950.

This appears to be a Winter scene, due to the snow that is seen on the ground. It is not too often in photo's that the DL-109's are seen during daytime hours while handling freight trains. When the Korea War activity increased, numerous freight trains were required to be operated by the New Haven Railroad, and perhaps this is the reason that these locomotives are seen in freight service at this time. Dominate in the background is seen the McCoy Coal Company facility. The temperature must have been cold enough that the locomotive steam generators were required to be operated in order to heat the cabs.

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New Haven Railroad new GE EP-5 class motor # 371, is seen leading a large and heavy train along the electrified main line while it passes a station, 1955. These locomotives were known as "jets," for their loud and whining blowers, but this motor has not had the modification to install the side air vents. The post war stainless steel lightweight passenger cars have not yet received their McGinnis paint scheme. Notice all of the head end equipment found on this train. The station location is unknown, but it must be west of Stamford due to the triangular catenary installation. The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is unknown.

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Seaboard Coast Line ALCO RS-3 Road Switcher 1255, along with another, leads a local freight train across a wooden trestle through the Lealman area while departing Saint Petersburg, Florida, ca 1970's. These ALCO RS-3 Road Switchers were obtained from the Seaboard Air Line during the 1967 merger of the ACL & SAL. In the background over the tracks you can see a highway overpass bridge which is U.S. 19, and further back about a 1/4 mile is the Amtrak passenger station. Notice the long hood on RS-3 1255, because it only has one marker light in place. When talking with various SCL engineers they indicated that they liked the old RS-3 locomotives much more so than the new GE U18B's which were to replace them. The track on which the train is operating is the old ACL route out of Saint Petersburg.

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New Haven Railroad J-1 class 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive is seen leading a long & heavy manifest freight train on the main line, ca 1940's. The J-1 Mikado's could handle a moderate sized freight train and would operate at a reasonable speed while doing so. You may observe the engineer in his cab window.

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New Haven Railroad departing RDC train led by Budd RDC-1 # 20, along with a departing New York Central RS-3 # 8351, that is seen while leading a commuter train near signal bridge # 9, at Boston, Massachusetts, ca late 1950's. It is always interesting to see the old style blade semaphore signals that are still in use during rather modern times. The New Haven Railroad operated numerous RDC trains in and out of South station. The New York Central (former B&A) used many of their older heavyweight coaches at the east end of their system that were assigned to commuter and local train service. The track installation at South Station is very complex.

Note: To view a large number of New Haven Railroad photos from one source, please go to My Flickr Albums, and then select the album titled New Haven Railroad & PC Photos.

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New Haven Railroad EMD FL9 2016 along with another leads a Springfield 4 car passenger train past the yard area and heads for Union Station at Hartford, Connecticut, ca early 1960's The train is operating on the two track main line between New Haven and Springfield, with the other tracks to the right of the main line tracks being yard tracks.

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Lehigh & New England Railroad ALCO ES-14 class 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive 302 leads a freight train of hopper cars near Maybrook, New York, 1940. Notice that the second set of trucks on the tender has a booster engine with an outside side rod to operate both wheel sets. You can see the fireman in his cab window. Notice the locomotive's spoke pilot truck wheel.

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New Haven Railroad I-4 class 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive # 1398, is seen leading the westbound East Wind passenger train through Oxford, Massachusetts, ca 1940. You can see the fireman leaning out of his cab window. This colorful train (yellow with silver stripes and window bands) operated between Washington, D.C. and the Maine Coast, and was jointly handled by the Pennsylvania Railroad, New Haven Railroad and the Boston & Maine Railroad. This summer season train was provided with passenger cars coming from all three operators.

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New Haven Railroad ALCO DER-2a class FA-1 locomotive 0429 & DER-2b class FB-1 locomotive 0454 along with a Budd RDC-1 coach 46 is seen in the yard at South Boston, Massachusetts 1958. The FA-1 locomotive 0429 is wearing the standard green & yellow paint scheme, while the FB-1 locomotive 0454 is wearing the McGinnis paint scheme. To the far right is a green heavyweight passenger car, most likely a parlor car. Since there is snow on the ground it must be winter season.

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New Haven Railroad I-4 class Pacific steam locomotive # 1351, along with a large six wheel truck tender and a Providence bound commuter train is seen at a platform track in South Station Boston, Massachusetts 1937. You may observe the box that is situated on the locomotive's pilot deck, which holds the ATS equipment for the Shore Line signal system. It is always nice to find a steam locomotive with its rods in a down position, as this one has provided.

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New Haven Railroad I-4 class 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive # 1391, is seen while leading a mixed consist 9 car passenger train along the Shore Line, ca mid 1940's. With a New Haven coal burning I-4 class Pacific up front, this short passenger train has plenty of power to maintain its speed on the main line. It appears that the first car may be a dead-head heavyweight parlor car that is followed by a combine, along with four Osgood-Bradley (aka American Flyer) coaches, followed up by what appears to be a heavyweight dining car and a couple of heavyweight parlor cars. You may easily observe the engineer in his cab window.

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New Haven Railroad EMD FL-9's (EDER-5a), led by locomotive # 2038, is seen in the electric zone while stopped with a west bound passenger train at the Stamford Station platform in Connecticut, 1960's era. The trains consist contains a mixture of heavyweight head end equipment, an Osgood-Bradley American Flyer coach and what appears to be the modern Pullman Standard post war stainless steel sheathed cars. Located behind the train is a so called washboard MU car built by Pullman Standard in 1954. Notice the famous New Haven Railroad style of triangular catenary in use at this location.This photo came from my collection, however, the photographer's name that took this photo is unknown.

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New Haven Railroad open platform trailer combo # 4650, along with another MU car is seen at a station platform (most likely a flag stop) on the New Canaan Branch, Connecticut, ca 1940's. On the platform are situated mail bags to be handled. Check out the old Alka-Seltzer advertisement sigh on the station building. This New Canaan electrified branch line operation is very much like a heavy duty interurban operation is some respects. It is very interesting to view these old open platform MU cars that are still in service, and they will continue to serve for many more years, with most lasting until 1955. Trailer Combo # 4650 was among two that were constructed in 1912, by the Standard Steel Car Company.

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New Haven Railroad I-5 Hudson class steam locomotive seen in dynamic winter snow action with a named train operating along Shoreline, ca 1940's. These Hudson's were fast and that is why various named trains still rated them even after the road passenger diesels (ALCO DL-109's) started to appear.

The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is Roland Patry. This photo came from the internet and is a modified crop of the original photo.

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New Haven Railroad Pullman Standard stainless steel lightweight MUT's are being pushed an ALCO switcher as they head to the storage yard tracks just east of tower SS38 at Stamford, Connecticut, 1968. It is interesting that the vestibule doors on these car are of the solid design rather than dutch door style, but on the other hand they do have drop down windows. It also appears that the first MUT has the McGinnis paint scheme ends while the second MUT has the standard green painted ends. You may observe the large bolster anchor on the side of the lead snubber equipped inside swing hanger roller bearing GSC truck. These cars also had tight-lock couplers.

Bob Hughes captured this image on film from his tower location.

New Haven Railroad Baldwin-Westinghouse EF-1 motor 95 along with two additional EF-1's, lead the freight HG-3 Shuttle from Harlem To Bay Ridge, while crossing Hell Gate Bridge in New York City, 1953. The New Haven Railroad often used a combination of three EF-1 freight motors to power heavy freight trains.

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New Haven Railroad EP-1 class 1-B-B-1 motors (aka: Ponies) # 029 & 036, are seen in the station yard at New Haven, Connecticut, mid 1930's. These old passenger motors were still in service at this time, but members of their fleet were already being condemned, and by the near end of the 1940's, they were all gone. Check out the vertical air whistle situated near the bell and headlight.

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New Haven Railroad ALCO L-1 class 2-10-2 Santa Fe steam locomotive 3200, slowly leads a freight train through a washout area while a track crew adds new fill and roadbed along with aligning the tracks and performing repair work at Derby, Connecticut, late 1930's. The washout may have occurred after one of the two late 1930's hurricanes that struck Connecticut and caused serious damage in many areas of the state. The washout event should keep the Maintenance Of Way crews busy for sometime. This steam engine is the first L-1 class steam locomotive 3200 in a series of 50 such engines. Over the years these engines were rebuilt several times and numerous modifications and changes for improvement were included. The front end of this locomotive looks very different from its as built look because it now has an Elesco feed-water heater added to its smoke-box top and it also has two air compressors mounted on its pilot deck along with shields. In the background you can observe plumes of smoke and water vapor in the sky indicating that another steam locomotive or possibly two are present.

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New Haven Railroad EP-5 Motor # 374 with eastbound # 12, The Bay State, that is heading to Boston is seen at Stamford Connecticut, May 18, 1967. Another passenger train is passing by this location in the opposite direction. With the triangular catenary you can surely tell that you are in the Stamford section of the electrified railroad. Again I was able to come up with a clean and well painted EP-5 during this time period, back when many of the motors were not so fortunate to look this good.

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New Haven Railroad EMD FL-9 EDER-5a class locomotive # 2035 & mate are seen leading an eastbound manifest freight train on an express track along side a westbound passenger train near tower SS38 at Stamford, Connecticut, ca 1968, Bob Hughes Photo. Photos that depict FL-9's leading freight trains are not so common, so it is very nice to present this photo which Bob Hughes captured for history. In the background we can view a portion of the downtown area along with highway I-95.

New Haven Railroad J-1 class 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive # 3022, is seen leading a nine car local freight train along Air Line in Connecticut, 1947. This country side location is unknown. If you notice that the box car coupled to the last gondola is some sort of stock car. On the highway overpass bridge there appears to be an old woody station wagon about to cross. This scene may have been taken in the Portland area.

The name of the photographer that captured this image is unknown and it came from a photo that was on the Internet. This photo has been cropped and modified from the original to improve its appearance. This is a B&W photo that I colorized.

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Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain Doodlebug # M-39, is seen at at unknown station location, possibly Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, late 1930's. This railroad was fundamentally a coal hauling standard gauge railroad, that also hauled passengers, mail and baggage. The railroad at its height had just over 72 miles of track. The railroad's track were located in south central Pennsylvania and they interchanged cargo with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Huntingdon and at one time with the Bedford & Bridgeport Railroad at Mount Dallas. In the background there appears to be an order-board semaphore signal located by the station building.

The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is unknown. This photo came from my personal collection of railroad photos scans from a friends large and high quality collection.

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New Haven Railroad guest, the Brulington Zephyr 9900, or aka: Pioneer Zephyr, is on display with railfans and visitors seen at Union Station in New Haven, Connecticut, 1934. The was the first all stainless steel train in America, and it broke various speed records. The train used a 660 hp Winton 201-A diesel prime mover for power. This train set actually remained in revenue passenger service from 1934 until March, 1960. It appears that some of the looks of the New Haven Railroad's Comet train set may have come from the Zephyr's design. As you can see there was quite a turnout of visitors for viewing this train set at the station.

This photo came from my New Haven Railroad photo collection and the photographers name was not provided. Any credit for this photo must be provided to the original photographer.

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New Haven Railroad L-1 class Santa Fe steam locomotive 3217, is seen leading a manifest freight train on the Maybrook Line through Shelton, Connecticut, ca late 1930's. Back in these days Connecticut was very industrialized with numerous manufactures in existence, and this really helped the railroad freight business.

This photo came from my New Haven Railroad photo collection, however; the photographers name was not available. Any credit for this photo must be provided to the original photographer.

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New Haven Railroad Baldwin-Westinghouse EP-2 class motor 308 is seen uncouping to it's eastbound passenger train that includes what appears to be a dead-head coach at Union Station in New Haven, Connecticut, 10-6-1935. Shortly as is typical, a steam locomotive and perhaps an I-4 class Pacific, may couple onto the train to lead it to is final destination. It appears that the engineer in his cab window really wanted his photo taken by his pose.

This photo came from my New Haven Railroad photo collection and the photographers name was not provided. Any credit for this photo must be provided to the original photographer.

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New Haven Railroad DER-2a class ALCO FA-1 locomotive # 0429 along with a FB-1 & FA-1 locomotive are seen in the yard at Maybrook, New York ca mid 1960. FA-1 # 0429 is wearing what is called the Alpert paint scheme, with the FB-1 still wearing the conventional green and gold-yellow pin stripe paint scheme. The yard at Maybrook was the New Haven Railroad's freight train gateway to New England where interchange was made with several other railroads.

The name of the photographer that captured this image is unknown and it came from a photo that was on the Internet. This photo has been cropped and modified from the original to improve its appearance.

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New Haven Railroad west bound, and most likely a named passenger train, led by DER-3a class ALCO PA-1 locomotive 0784 and another, is seen entering the station platform area with their train at Providence, Rhode Island, ca late 1950's. This train has no head-end cars in its consist. The first four cars on this train are lightweight parlor cars followed by what appears to be a dining car and perhaps then some coaches. This stations platform area is on a curve. One of the PA-1 locomotives is wearing the conventional green and yellow paint scheme, while the other PA-1 is wearing the new McGinnis paint scheme. This scene was perhaps taken in the late afternoon or in the early evening with the western sun lighting the scene.

This photo came from the Internet and the photographers name was not provided. Any credit for this photo must be provided to the original photographer.

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New Haven Railroad EY-2b class Baldwin-Westinghouse electric Steeple Cab B+B switcher # 0219, Built 1926-1927, is seen on a siding along Fulton Avenue, Mt. Vernon, New York, 4-23-1936. The New Haven Railroad had quite a number of electric switchers in service during this era. This photo came from my New Haven Railroad negative collection, photographer unknown.

New Haven Railroad (aka: streamliner) EP-4 class motor # 360, is seen while leading a passenger train along the electrified main line east of Stamford, Connecticut, in the late 1950's. This exact location is unknown. The name of the original photographer that took this photo is unknown.

This photo came from my Al Chione duplicate slide collection.

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Penn Central eastbound passenger train with two GG-1 locomotives (a dead-head move for power reassignment) passes by tower SS38 in the rain at Stamford, Connecticut, 1972. The leading and powered GG-1 still maintains its original Pennsylvania Railroad single stripe paint scheme. There probably was never a need for two GG-1's to be powered to handle any train on the former New Haven Railroad. This train operated through Penn Station in New York City.

Bob Hughes captured this image on film from his dry tower location.

New Haven Railroad R-3-a class ALCO 4-8-2 Mountain steam locomotive 3557 leads a block of refrigerator boxcars eastbound along the Shore Line at Guilford, Connecticut, 7-1948. It appears that the majority of the refrigerator cars are of wooden construction with a few steel cars thrown into the consist. These R-3-a class steam locomotive were the most powerful among the Mountain type engines on the railroad and could operate a freight train at close to average passenger train speeds if required. In the distance you can see a block signal bridge and also what appears to be two railfans walking by the track near their parked car. You can see the fireman's arm outside of his cab window.

The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is Kent Cochrane. This is a modified, enhanced and cropped photo scan that is from a B&W photo in my personal collection. This photo has been colorized by me.

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