In the setting sun, engineer Casey (yes Casey) brings No.40 up for a coupling with his train to go back to New Hope.

Grand Central Terminal serves over 700,000 commuters every work day. It is the main station for the USA's largest commuter railroad, Metro-North. Surprising to me, GCT is the sixth most popular to... (more)

No. 2317 steams up the Gangway track after dumping ash. On the right, her mechanic, carman and conductor confer before the day's work on "The Shuttle."

Here you see the result my second night of flash shooting; a not too bad shot of NHRR's pretty Baldwin No. 40. But perhaps the real story is for the first time in a lifetime of photography, this ... (more)

I never made it to Cheyenne WO to see the Big Boy in it's lair. But I think this is something like what I would have found after a new snow storm in January 1958.

Engineer Bruce is checking his brake pipe pressure. The locomotive has just come off an intensive 2-year rebuild. I must admit I have never been in the cab that was nice and shiny with a new car s... (more)

Grand, Glorious and One heck of a locomotive, and doing what it was made to do, high speed passenger railroading on the Corridor. Poignant this time was for the end of the GG-1's reign was very n... (more)

America's fastest railroad machine, the Acela, zips along a rock encrusted fill just before ripping through Rocky Neck State Park on it's journey to Boston.

An Amtrak is seen streaking south bound alongside the Henry Hudson Highway to Penn Station along New York City's Manhattan West Side Line at Riverside Drive and 155nd street. In the background is ... (more)

7:22 AM morning light hits the Harlem River Bridge at the start of another day of work in the Big Apple. Visible on the bridge are some of Metro North's 40-year old Metropolitan MU cars. To the r... (more)

UP 4012's front engine is lit by a sliver of sun shining just above the Pocono mountians and below a storm cloud.

Yes Virginia, those are Conrail SW1500 switchers in Oak Point Yard in the Bronx, New York. Shrugging off the late winter chill, they are waiting by the NEC to finish up the day's work.

Nevin the firemen enjoys the breeze with EBT No. 15 doing 125MPH! :-)

There is nothing prettier then a WW I era Baldwin. Here you see No. 15, built in February 1914 with 27,600 lbs. tractive effort weighing 150,150 lbs. It is cresting McMullins Summit; it's all down... (more)

I bet you have never seen a full size steam locomotive getting a new coat of paint. (OK, I never have.) Here black is being applied to 6039 at the end of it's asbestos project at Steamtown by boil... (more)