Traveling through Europe with friends I somehow wound up in Cambridge, England all by myself. After touring the university (which I highly recommend, beautiful campus), I found myself back to the ... (more)

Two former Erie Lackawanna NW2s and an SW9 await their next assignments in their old home territory of Croxton Yard (the Erie Railroad's big New York area yard). Before being patched and numbered ... (more)

Summer high sun is the worst, but sometimes you can find an angle that still kind of works. Here is Cedar Hill (New Haven) bound SENH1 on July 1, 1978, heading south through Hyde Park, New York ou... (more)

It was approaching evening on July 1, 1978 when two friends and I stopped on the way home at Roseton, New York (near Newburgh) and caught this northbound with an ex Penn Central GP40, and a blue S... (more)

This little display train was parked at 7326 East Hwy 140 in Planada, CA (near Merced) as part of the Red Rock Winery. It is led by a General Electric 25-ton, 150 horsepower, industrial locomotive... (more)

Up until December 27, 2002, I had not had a camera fail on me. I'd had film not catch. I'd made my own exposure and focus mistakes, but I'd had good luck with the cameras themselves. I don't beliv... (more)

Looking back, it's hard to fully understand things I didn't photograph in my teens. Like why is this the only thing even approaching a 50% clean shot of the transfer table at Elizabethport, NJ? I ... (more)

New York Cross Harbor Railroad S1 #25 street running on 2nd Avenue near Bush Terminal in Brooklyn New York on May 1, 1998, gets some protection from the city's finest as the crew tries to figure o... (more)

Hooray for Hollywood (well the Florida one). A Tri-Rail commuter train pulls towards the Hollywood, Florida station on March 28, 1991. Power is a Morrison-Knudson F40PHL-2. These "mini" ... (more)

This is Conrail train 5712, a Phillipsburg to Newark long commuter with CNJ Standards. Photo is taken on the Aldene Ramp in Roselle Park NJ. If I took one step to the left I'd be in Roselle. Date ... (more)

I had to really think back on this photograph of Conrail train 5600, the Wall Street, heading up the Aldene Connection from the EX Jersey Central to the ex Lehigh Valley. The train is led by Readi... (more)

I have long loved the big boxy Brissonneau-Lotz BB-67400 class in France. Here we see one in a photo I took at Gare de Lyon, in Paris, on May 18, 1983. These units can work in both freight and pas... (more)

Keeping with the Penn Central tradition of leasing Bangor & Aroostook power after potato season was done, Conrail utilized a BAR GP9 on May 27, 1978 in Haworth NJ to pull a ballast train both nort... (more)

Conrail #8830, weekend commuter service southbound out of Poughkeepsie, NY comes around the curve in Cold Spring, NY with Breakneck Ridge looming behind on May 20, 1978. It's led by two Penn Centr... (more)

National Locomotive was a start up locomotive rebuilder on the propery of the Morristown & Erie Railroad in Morristown NJ. They had a bunch of retired Norfolk & Western RS36s and RS11s that they w... (more)