It's a summer tradition! The MTA Long Island Railroad's "Cannonball" remains its sole name train (8717), offering weekly Friday afternoon service to Montauk with a Sunday night return to New York'... (more)

At first glance this is just another M-1 class Budd MU at North White Plains, but the DOT logo on the nose and the vents behind the cab indicate that it is one of the eight prototype dual power ga... (more)

ACS-64 #662 leads Northeast Regional Train 71 past Princeton Junction Station and NJ Transit Northeast Corridor Line Train 7851 on Saturday, April 8, 2017. Note the reflection of the distant ALP-... (more)

The Broadway Junction complex boasts many elevated flyovers and duckunders, being the confluence of the Jamaica and Canarsie Lines, as well as the site of East New York Yard. The track flying over... (more)

An Amtrak GP15D is along for the ride, being towed behind ACS-64s 636 & 616. The light engine move is enroute to Phiadelphia. I assume the diesel would be needed to get the KN702 crew back to Ne... (more)

Getaway Extra
A westbound holiday weekend "getaway" extra train slows for the stop at Dunellen station. This train is led by PL42AC 4023, with GP40-2 4301 shoving on the hind end. 43... (more)

While CSX's Croton West Yard used to see a fair number of freight moves every day, these days it mostly just plays host the occasional outlawed train. Q431-15 left Selkirk, New York on 7/15/2016 a... (more)

ALP-46A #4641, one of NJ Transit's Veterans Units, shoves Northeast Corridor Line Train 3864 out of Edison Station on June 20, 2017.

Conrail Shared Assets PR32 is in Elizabeth, New Jersey on 6/4/2017 as we catch it with the Goethals Bridge in the background. Norfolk Southern Corp 1700 (SD45-2, Erie Lackawanna Railroad heritage)... (more)

On 6/11/2017, we catch the New York and Atlantic Railway's RS-20 on the MTA LIRR Lower Montauk Branch. Lead by CITX 402 (GP38-2), the train just serviced Waste Management and is returning to the r... (more)

"Service is our Business!" proclaims Morristown & Erie Railway GP7u 23 on 5/7/2017 working as the Bayway switcher. This engine is a hard one to photograph, as there is limited road access to the l... (more)

The Amtrak 241 is just about to leave New York, New York on 6/9/2017 as it heads north on the Empire Corridor with 710 (P32AC-DM, Phase III) leading at about 1930. This is one of those "summer onl... (more)

Daylight Bay Ridge Freight! The New York and Atlantic Railway RS-20 (301, PR20-B) is on the way back to the New York New Jersey Rail, LLC interchange at the 65 Street Yard on the morning of 4/23/2... (more)

Amtrak 69 heads over the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge on the morning of 6/11/2017 with the George Washington Bridge in the background.

Vintage BMT Standard 2392 (ACF, 1914-19) Approaches the curve entering Brighton Beach on a sunny afternoon. During the MTA New York City Transit/New York Transit Museum "Parade Of Trains"... (more)