An early morning northbound Coaster passes the Soledad Lagoon near the Torrey Pines State Beach.

Cabooses from an empty URR coke train headed to the USX Clairton Plant and a loaded URR slab train headed to the USX Irvin Plant run parallel south of Dravosburg.

Jersey Arrows at sunset; next stop, New Brunswick. At this time the snow has receded from the main line, but it will be back again soon.

Amtrak 600 has settled into a fairly reliable operating pattern on the Northeast Corridor between Washington, DC and New York's Penn Station for the last few weeks. For the moment, 600 has the ho... (more)

NJ Transit's relatively new "dual mode" ALP-45DPs are now appearing more frequently on various Hoboken Division lines. 4511 leads train 1169 through the S-curve in Garfield on the Bergen County L... (more)

TV-556 was one of the more interesting trains operating on the River Line in the 90s. It was typically led by SP motive power either as a solid set or mixed with Conrail units. Here the once-per... (more)

KCR 56 "I.B. Trevor" leads X905 north with a single mail car in tow. In the background, buildings of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University tower over the yard, and the seemingly always-congested ap... (more)

66Q has the honor of being the first train to traverse the Port Reading Secondary after a heavy overnight snowfall. This train is bringing ethanol loads from the Midwest to the "Chemical Coast" o... (more)

On the Susquehanna in 2006 it is unusual to find so many similarly-painted units congregating in one location. In this view, 1804 holds the main with a WS-3 local, while power from road train SU-... (more)

NYS&W 1800 brings a single C&O/Chessie System RBL east across Midland Ave in Saddle Brook. Since a trainman is riding the front steps (anyone recognize him?) the crew may have some work to do in ... (more)

Cities Sprinter at Sunset: Amtrak 600 has now settled into a routine, having hauled regular Northeast Direct trains for four days as train 129 crosses the Raritan River viaduct at sunset. ... (more)

Coal loads head north toward Bakersfield and are about to enter Tunnel 2. KCS 4691 adds a colorful addition to the consist. This heavy train had 4 units on the head end and 3 DPUs on the hind en... (more)

Train T-815 from Guangzhou arrives at it's final destination, Hung Hom Station.

Honorable mention at NJ Transit's "Family Day" event goes to CNJ 1524. This unit was brought in from the URHS storage facility in Boonton to be displayed among the three new heritage un... (more)

Snow has given way to rain in northern New Jersey as a staged SU-99 road train waits for a crew to take it west.