A Grand Birthday. On February 1, 1913, the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad opened the Beaux-Arts style Reed and Stem/Warren and Wetmore designed Grand Central Terminal to the publi... (more)

Frozen Face. Metro-North Railroad (MNR) P32AC-DM no. 227 leads an outbound Hudson Line train into Harlem-125 St station during a massive Nor'easter. Within a few hours all Metro-North s... (more)

"What Skyline?" My friend and I said the same thing at the same time upon getting on the platform at Harlem-125 St. Winter Storm Olena had completely obscured the skyline typi... (more)

Blizzard. Metro-North Railroad (MNR) P32AC-DM no. 227 shoves an inbound Hudson Line train from Poughkeepsie around the curve at Marble Hill, which is nearly completely whited out by the... (more)

Light Locomotives. Metro-North BL20GH no. 125, sporting seemingly fresh CTrail paint, is seen with Metro-North 107 racing through Ardsley-on-Hudson station on the Hudson Line.

New Haven In Cannondale. The same year that this station was completed in 1892, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad took over the Housatonic Railroad, which in turn controlled the... (more)

Metro-North P32AC-DM 220 pushing train 866 makes a stop at Peekskill before continuing on to New York City.

Metro-North's New York Central heritage unit heading to Croton-Harmon after experiencing mechanical problems in Poughkeepsie.

Operating on Track 3 at Metro-North’s Harlem-125th Street Station is (what I presume to be) MNCW train 1318, heading from Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal to Stamford, Connecticut. MNCW P32... (more)

Metro-North GP35R 103 towing a disabled train from Poughkeepsie back to Croton-Harmon.

Icy Bright Sunset. MTA Metro-North Railroad Train 843 MNCW 201 (MTA-Conrail, 40th Anniversary) passes the High Bridge Maintenance Facility in the Bronx, New York at sunset on January 17, 20... (more)

On a sunny morning of January 17, 2024, there were switch issues on the west leg of the Devon wye. Metro-North train 1908 took the east leg which turned the equipment from its usual north-facing l... (more)

Cold In Cold Spring. In one of the first snow accumulations since being wrapped in its heritage scheme, MNCW P32AC-DM 211 (New York Central Heritage/40th Anniversary) was assigned to MTA Me... (more)

The New York Central 40th Anniversary heritage wrap heading to Poughkeepsie on New Years Day.

Snow's coming down heavier, as Metro-North's Conrail heritage wrap, pushes its train through the Scarborough station.