Union Pacific FEF-3 class 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive # 8444, is stopped with a rail fan excursion train after completing a photo run-by in Colorado, July 26, 1980. The people are all rushing to get back aboard the train, prior to its departure to the next location. The rail found in this location is about as polished as it comes. This location is known as KERSEY.

New Haven Railroad ALCO FA-1 & FB-1 in a 3 unit ABA set with FA-1 0418 facing the camera at the Dover Street Yard Complex in Boston, Massachusetts, ca 1949. On the right side of the FA-1 is the nose of an ALCO DL-109 locomotive # 0733 and then some heavyweight passenger cars. Behind the locomotive set you can see the engine sanding tower. All of the FA-1 & FB-1 locomotive set is wearing the short lived pin stripe paint scheme.

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New Haven Railroad electric locomotive storage area with EP-3 # 352, EP-4 # 355, 2 - EP-5 jets & also 2 - ALCO switchers are seen at Union Station in New Haven, Connecticut, ca mid 1950's. The days of the streamliners and flat bottoms are are now very limited with the new management in place. In the center background you can see a REAX boxcar in the station platform area. You may also notice in the locomotive storage area that a sanding tower bridge is situated across several tracks, with the Union Station building being seen further into the background area. In the foreground area you can see two jacks or dwarf signals. You may observe crew members in the cab of the EP-3.

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Penn Central EMD F7A # 1840, cabless GP9B # 3815 & F7A # 1758, as seen from tower SS38 by Bob Hughes with his camera, lead an eastbound manifest freight train under wire on a former New Haven Railroad express track through Stamford, Connecticut, summer 1973. Evidently to the PC black was beautiful, because they seemed in time to paint most of their locomotives in the plain black paint scheme. It appears that the leading F7A is receiving its air conditioning with the use of an open front cab nose door and with air passing through the cab windows. This locomotive consist makes for an interesting combination.

Conrail EMD SW1500 switcher # 9584 is working a long cut of freight cars in yard along side a portion of the Juniata Shops at Altoona, Pennsylvania, November 1995. The first block of cars behind the switcher appear to be covered wire or coil hauling cars. This photo was taken on an overcast and rainy day without very good lightening. There was always constant freight train action seen in this yard along with a number of Amtrak trains passing through to the station. At the large shop facility numerous locomotives were rebuilt, re-manufactured, refurbished or built new from kits. Over by the shop facility buildings are lines of EMD and GE locomotives to be shopped. The main line through tracks are situated under the block signal to the left of the switcher and its cars.

New Haven Railroad R-1b class 4-8-2 Mountain steam locomotive # 3310 is seen in a light move along the main line, ca late 1940's. The engineer is seen in his cab window as the locomotive makes pretty good speed. These locomotives were freight locomotives, but on various occasions they were used with heavy passenger trains.

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Denver & Rio Grande Western westbound Rio Grande Zephyr rear of train is seen while operating in open country on the main line as it rounds a curve in Colorado, Summer 1980. You can see the heavily tinted dome window glass used in the dome cars.

New Haven Railroad Baldwin I-5 class 4-6-4 streamlined Hudson steam locomotive # 1404 with its passenger train is seen operating on the Shore Line with a plumb of smoke behind at an unknown location, ca 1940's. You can see the engineer in his cab window as the train rolls by. The Consist on this train is mostly heavyweight equipment with a few Osgood-Bradley PS (American Flyer) coaches thrown in.

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New Haven Railroad ALCO S-2 diesel electric switcher # 0609 and slug DT-1 are assigned to hump duties at the Hartford Yard, Connecticut, ca mid-late 1950's. This switcher and slug combination started work in 1952 and was used until the early 1960's in Hartford. In the left side background is a State of Maine box car.

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New Haven Railroad Baldwin streamlined modern I-5 class Hudson steam locomotive is seen while leading a eleven car passenger train on the main line near Back Bay, in the greater Boston, Massachusetts area, late 1940's. It appears that the consist of the passenger train is all heavyweight passenger equipment. Check out the nice appearing blade semaphore block signal situated on the left.

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New Haven Railroad FL9 2005 & another FL9 lead a head-end heavy passenger train through a city area in Boston, Massachusetts May 1958. The small two story buildingalong side of the tracks to the left appears to be a tower. In the distance to the left there appears to be a string of boxcars.

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New York Ontario & Western W class 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive 324 is handling only one New Haven Railroad boxcar while switching at Middletown, New York, November, 1941. This was only a few days before Peral Harbor. Some of these W class steam locomotives were modified to become W-2 class when they moved the air pumps to the pilot deck. You can see an employee standing on top of the boxcar and you can also see the fireman in his cab window. The steam locomotive 227 on the other side is an E class 4-6-0 ten wheeler operating in the opposite direction. Many people back in the day called this railroad the "Old & Weary."

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Penn Central former New Haven Railroad electrified main line has a westbound LNER Flying Scotsman locomotive 4472 with special 9 car display train operating on an express track at a location west of Stamford, Connecticut, 1969. You can see the the white extra flags mounted to the pilot beam. When this train continued its trip to New York City it had to drop its fire in New Rochelle, and a GG-1 was coupled to it for the remainder of the trip to New York City. As you can see an American headlight, a bell, an American style steam whistle along with pipe style pilot (cowcatcher) all had been added to make operation possible.

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New Haven Railroad ALCO DER-1b class DL-109 diesel electric locomotives # 0738 & 0704 along with their passenger train are seen at a Shore Line station platform at Saybrook, Connecticut, August 31, 1946. The fireman is leaning out of his cab window on a most likely warm August day. You can see a heavyweight head-end car coupled to the second locomotive. The second locomotive is wearing the late 1940's short lived pin stripe paint scheme.

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New Haven Railroad EP-5 motor 377 with a westbound passenger train is seen on a platform track at New Haven Union Station, New Haven, Connecticut, ca ea 1960's. On the left side of the photo you can observe another passenger train on a platform track that is fairly near the station building. You can observe either a conductor or a trainman standing near the locomotive and the first car, plus also you can see a number of passengers back under the platform canopy in the deep shade.

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New Haven Railroad J-1 class Mikado steam locomotive # 3022 is seen leading a local freight train on the Air Line route at Middlefield, Connecticut, April 1948. Of interest is the fact that this steam locomotive has a clear vision style of switcher tender coupled to its drawbar.

The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is I believe Kent Cochrane. This is a modified, enhanced and cropped photo scan from an image that was from my collection of railroad photos.

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Denver & Rio Grande Western Rio Grande Zephyr westbound with the last five cars of the train seen with dome coaches, diner and lounge-observation car as train rounds a main line curve in Utah, Summer 1980. The trains consist on this day included eight cars. The photos taken were part of a round trip from Denver to Salt Lake City and return to Denver that my family was taking for a sightseeing and railfan adventure.

Pennsylvania Railroad K4 class 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive 5441 along with other K4's are seen on engine ready tracks at Bay Head, New Jersey, October 19, 1949. The steam locomotive behind 5441 on the right is K4 locomotive 5338. You can see a good quantity of old ash and cinders between the rails in the foreground. In this photo you may notice that the new modern pilot as been installed on the locomotives, along with the headlight being moved higher to accommodiate the new smokebox front mounting of the trubo generator along with a new service platform mounted to the smokebox front. In the background you can see the top of a water tower.

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New Haven Railroad testing Pennsylvania experimental class E3b Railroad Baldwin Lima Hamilton-Westinghouse Ignitron Mercury-Arc Rectifier B-B-B motor set 4995-4996 leading a freight train on the electrified main line West of Stamford, Connecticut, Summer 1952. The two motors were operated in pairs and they produced 6,000 hp, with a maximum starting tractive effort of 189,000 lbs along with a continueous tractive effort at 17 MPH of 132,000 lbs. The E3b motors were not designed for high speed freight operation, but for pulling extra heavy loads ar lower to mederate speeds. These test on the New Haven Railroad were so successful that when General Electric built and delivered the EP-5 motors in 1955, they incorporated the Ignitron Rectifier system in their locomotives. Eventually Igintron Rectifiers in the various locomotives were changed to solid state rectifiers in later years once they were developed to handle high voltage and current. To the far right of the photo is what appears to be a passenger railroad yard with an employee standing near a passenger car.

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Denver & Rio Grande Western eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr is passing through a yard by a caboose of a freight train that's situated on the next track over at Grand Junction, Colorado, Summer 1980. An employee is standing by the caboose as the Zephyr passes by. There was some fairly large railroad yard facilities at Grand Junction at this time. Again on this return trip to Denver the weather conditions kept on changing.

New Haven Railroad FM CPA-24-5 # 793 & ALCO PA-1 lead a Shore Line passenger train at an unknown location, ca late 1950's. The third car on the train appears to be an ACL REA-Baggage Car, with the fourth car appearing to be a dead-head heavyweight parlor car, that followed by the streamlined train cars with the McGinnis red stripped window band paint scheme

This photo scan along with others was provided to me from a friend and the photographers name is Mile Usenia. This is a modified, enhanced and cropped version of the original photo scan.

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Penn Central ALCO S-2 switcher # 9851 is seen from tower SS38 at Stamford, Connecticut, 1971. Check out the old brass air whistle mounted to the cab front of the locomotive, a hold over from its former New Haven Railroad days. Bob Hughes captured this image from his tower location.

New Haven Railroad ALCO FA-1 locomotive 0418 & another is seen in the service and maintenance area of the yard at Maybrook, New York 5-20-1956. The ALCO FA-1 & FB-1 locomotives were the ones that converted the Maybrook Line from steam to diesel electric locomotive power.

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New Haven Railroad modified 6 car Budd RDC (DMU) Roger Williams train # 141 is seen departing westbound at New Haven Union Station, Connecticut, ca late 1950's. This complete train set built in 1956, only operated in the full configuration for a short time prior to being broken up and being operated with ofther standard RDC's. All of the cars, including the two at each end with the added cabs had third rail shoes which allowed them to operate on third rail in and out of Grand Central Station in New York City. The four inner DMU's had no controls as found on standard RDC's at both ends. These cars lasted through the PC years and into Amtrak service.

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New Haven Railroad ALCO DL-109's & PA-1's along with numerous passenger cars on yard storage tracks plus an outbound DL-109 led passenger train are seen at the Dover Street Yard in South Boston, Massachusetts, 1949. You can see the much lower city skyline as it was back in the day in this scene. There were numerous trains that ran into and out of Boston's South Station that were serviced in the Dover Street Railroad Yard.

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Denver & Rio Grande Western westbound Rio Grande Zephyr is seen shortly after its morning departure from Denver Union Station as it passes through various yards and commercial business areas, Summer 1980. In approximately 14 hours time the train will arrive in Salt Lake City, Utah. In Denver there are numerous highway overpasses and bridges where the train shall pass under.

Penn Central Ex PRR EMD GP30 # 2226, Ex NYC GE U30B # 2875 and an Ex New Haven Railroad U25B locomotive is seen leading a westbound manifest freight train on a former New Haven Railroad main line express track past tower SS38 in Stamford, Connecticut, 1971. On the storage track sidings to the right are various set of Pullman Standard lightweight stainless steel MUT's. The busy highway on the left is I-95, that's situated in a residential area of the downtown. At this time it is becoming much more standard to see diesel electric locomotives leading freight trains on this portion of the railroad while under wire. Bob Hughes captured this image from his elevated tower location.

Denver & Rio Grande Western eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr is passing through the yard on the main line with a GP40-2 # 3121, along with other locomotives, leading a manifest freight train on the next track at Grand Junction, Colorado, Summer 1980. There was much freight railroading activity seen as the Zephyr passed through the yard area.

New Haven Railroad GE EF-4 # 306 & # 307 are leading a westbound manifest freight train on an express track as it is about to pass by tower SS38 at Stamford, Connecticut, 1968. Motor # 306 appears to be freshly painted. There is a good variety of freight cars in the consist, and about eleven cars back in the train there appears to be a couple of State Of Main boxcars. Bob Hughes took this photo from his tower location.

Penn Central ex New Haven Railroad GE EP-5 motor # 379 leads an eastbound passenger train that is departing the station at Stamford, Connecticut, 1969. This motor appears to have had a recent paint job applied by the New Haven, from its appearance. This train was a PRR job that departed from Pennsylvania Station in New York City. The train is crossing over from a platform track to an express track. The coach that is coupled to the locomotive is one of the partially modernized PRR P70 coaches. The first three Budd lightweight stainless steel cars on the train were former PRR 21 roomette sleepers which were converted to coaches in 1963. The next car seen on the train appears to be a former New York Central diner. At the rear of the train there appears to be at least one ex New Haven parlor car. Bob Hughes took this photo from his tower SS38 location.

Lehigh & New England Railroad ALCO FA-1's & FB-1 in a ABA lash-up led by # 710, along with its manifest freight train, are seen while passing through the New Haven Railroad Yard at Maybrook, New York, ca 1950. You may observe that the engineer's arm is sticking out of his cab window. Seen in the right side background is a rather rare in this area NC&STL Dixie Line boxcar. The L&NE early on completely dieselized in 1949, with ALCO FA-1's, FB-1's and RS-2's locomotives. These locomotives were black and white in color with a red nose logo. This railroad's total operation was shut down 1961 and was abandoned, all due to traffic reductions and further future reductions.

The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is unknown. This photo negative came from my collection.

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Union Pacific FEF-3 class 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive # 8444, is seen leading a rail fan excursion train on photo a run-by in Colorado, July 26, 1980. One railfan photographer has climbed the block signal ladder to capture his image. There is a marker sign on the right side of the locomotive that says "KERSEY."

Denver & Rio Grande Western westbound Rio Grande Zephyr, led by EMD F9A locomotive # 5771 and F9B locomotives # 5762 & # 5763, is stopped for fuel, water and possibly for some food supplies at the station in Grand Junction, Colorado, Summer 1980. In this view you can see the whole eight car train including the dome lounge-observation car at the rear end.

Grand Junction is the mid way point location in the trip between Denver and Salt Lake City where the locomotives of westbound or eastbound Zephyr's are fueled and watered. The passenger cars also take on water at this location plus any required food or drink for the diner or lounge car are supplied here too. At this stop some minor required repairs can also be made or a substitute locomotive may be called upon if necessary.

New Haven Railroad R-3-a class 4-8-2 Mountain steam locomotive # 3557 is seen with a block of refrigerator cars while heading 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.

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.

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Denver & Rio Grande Western eastbound Rio Grande Zephyr, led by F9A locomotive 5771 and two F9B's, is seen on a curve while a TOFC freight train with a caboose is being pushed by a SD45 helper in Utah, Summer 1980. Again on this overcast day there was not much available sunshine and it rained on and off as we proceeded eastbound to Denver, our final destination. In this area of the railroad there appear to be three main lines present. In the foreground there is a pipe support bridge that crosses over what appears to be a small river.

Penn Central ex New Haven Railroad locomotives EMD GP-9 # 7534 & ALCO RS-11 # 7668 & FM H16-44 # 5169 lead a westbound manifest freight train on an express track while passing tower SS38 at Stamford, Connecticut, 1970. Locomotives from three manufactures are shown in this scene with PC numbering on all. The firstbox car coupled to the rear locomotive is from the Maine Central. Highway I-95 can be seen in the background.

New Haven Railroad ALCO RS-2 road switcher 0503 is moving a Pullman-Standard lightweight 6 wheel truck stainless steel dining car in the yard at Boston, Massachusetts, 1960. You can see the engineer is his cab window and on the front walkway there appears to be a switchman or another employee. It is nice to see that this ALCO RS-2 is still in its earlier day paint scheme and not in McGinnis Livery.

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New Haven Railroad EP-3 motor 0360 leads a REA-bagggage & mail express train through Sunnyside Yard in Queens, New York, 5-26-1937. You can see the engineer in the cab of the motor. In this area the train is powered by third rail and you can that the pantographs are down on the motor. The actual Sunnyside Yard is located on the right on a lower level area. Much of this area also has catenary installed. The string of heavyweight cars to the right are most likely PRR equipment.

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Penn Central Ex NYC EMD F7A # 1840, Ex PRR EMD # GP9B & Ex NYC EMD F7A # 1758 lead an eastbound string of hopper cars in a manifest freight train through Stamford, Connecticut, summer 1971. It appears that the temperature must be pretty high because the front door to the lead unit is open to provide air circulation for the crew. These locomotives were all strangers on the former New Haven Railroad rails. Bob Hughes was able to take this photo from his tower vantage point.

New Haven Railroad DL-109 diesel locomotive # 0748 along with another lead a stopped eastbound regional passenger train while it is at a station platform in Providence Station, Rhode Island, mid late 1950's. At this platform location fuel and water can be supplied to the locomotives as required and an employee is seen doing so. This station presents interesting views of trains all due to the curved platform tracks. By this time period the DL-109's were not so often used on the regional and first class trains. There appears to be a club combine, a couple of parlor cars and then a diner or grill car on the train ahead of the coaches.

This photo came from the Internet, but the name of the photographer is Leo King.

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New Haven Railroad FM H16-44 locomotive # 1608 along with an ALCO RS-11 & FM H16-44 are seen while leading a westbound manifest freight train in a snow storm past tower SS38 at Stamford, Connecticut, 1968. The snow is really falling quit hard and the temperature is probably in the twenties, while Bob Hughes took this photo from his warm second floor tower location. To the far left the signs over highway I-95 are hard to read due to the heavy snow fall.

New Haven Railroad I-2 class Pacfic steam locomotive 1349 with its passenger train is seen while stopped at Danbury, Connecticut, 9-10-1938. At this time both steam locomotives and electric locomotives powered trains in Danbury. This train may be in service on the line between Danbury, Connecticut and Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

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New Haven Railroad GE U25B locomotive # 2516 & another, lead a westbound manifest freight train toward tower SS38 at Stamford, Connecticut, 1968. You can really see the exhaust and radiator heat being generated on top of the locomotives. In this scene you can also plainly see the short blade semaphore signals. The I-95 highway overpass bridge is seen in the background.

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

New Haven Railroad K-1-b class 2-6-0 Mogul steam locomotive # 276 with a freight train is seen at New London, Connecticut, June 1935. this train may atually be a work train or a MOW train. You can see the engineer in the cab of the locomotive. This steam engine still has its slide valves. You could find these little steam engines all around the system and especially on the light rail branch lines.

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New Haven Railroad EP-4 motor 360 & Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 locomotive 4896 are seen in the open pit area situated between Pennsylvania Station and the U.S. Post Office in New York City, 7-24-1960. In this area you could see trains heading too the Hudson River tunnels or that are entering Penn Station, along with locomotives that are awaiting their next assignment. Today this area is now covered over and the U.S. Post Office is now part of the Peen Station facility.

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New Haven Railroad GE EP-5 motor # 371 broke down and is being led by FM H16-44 locomotive # 1600 to the repair facility at New Haven, Connecticut, 1968. The paint job on this electric locomotive is in extremely bad condition, and evidently the electrical components within at this time are not in good condition either. Notice the red flag mounted to the coupler to indicate the rear of the train.

Bob Hughes captured this image on film along the electrified main line.

New Haven Railroad EP-5 Motor 375 leading a passenger train that is operating on the main line through an area of Sunnyside Yard in New York, 1962. You can see the engineer in his cab window ans the cab door is fully opened at both ends of the motor. The "H" lettering on the side of the locomotive cannot be fully seen because of the road grime and dirt built up on the white paint area.

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New Haven Railroad DER-1c class ALCO DL109's 0706 and 0710 are seen with a passenger train at a New Haven Union Station platform, New Haven, Connecticut, 1948. The diesel locomotives or steam locomotive deliver westbound trains into the station where electric motors will take over for the remainer of their runs to either Grand Central Terminal or Pennsylvania Station in New York City.

This negative and photo came from my personal collectiion of negatives.

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New Haven Railroad RDC-2 # 121 is seen at a station platform in Danbury, Connecticut, September 28, 1967. The RDC-2, of which the New Haven Railroad had two, contained a small baggage compartment along with a shortened coach section. At this time the electrification of this line was removed and the MOW department was not applying weed killer to the right-of-way as you can see. The old catenary support structures are still in place. In just a few months the New Haven Railroad will be merged into the Penn Central Railroad on January 1, 1969.

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New Haven Railroad diesel electric locomotive trio of FA-1 # 0420 & FB-1, plus another FA-1 is seen while leading a manifest freight train by the Hills Grove tower SS139 along the Shore Line route in Rhode Island, ca 1950's. Today this area is known a Hillsgrove. You may observe the mechanical pipe linkages extending out from the tower to operate switch turnouts and perhaps signals.

This photo scan along with others was provided to me from a friend and the photographers name is Mile Usenia. This is a modified, enhanced and cropped version of the original photo scan.

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