F is for First. At dusk on the first day of 2019, a Coney Island-bound IND Culver Line F train is approaching Smith-9th Street in Brooklyn, with the skyline of Lower Manhattan in the background. C... (more)
During the golden hour on a late winter afternoon, billboards and buildings provide the backdrop for this Long Island Rail Road EMD DE30AC, leading its train out of Long Island City yard to its fi... (more)
There are still traces of snow on the ground from the previous weekend's storms, as a Long Island Rail Road EMD DE30AC is caught by the setting sun leading its train out of Long Island City yard t... (more)
On the first day of spring I can't help but reflect on a winter that, in the New York area at least, was somewhat underwhelming, in contrast to many parts of the USA that really got hammered.... p... (more)
The rising sun has just broken the horizon in Queens, New York, as an early morning A train running from Far Rockaway to Manhattan, crosses the North Channel of Jamaica Bay and heads to its next s... (more)
The throb of diesel engines interrupts the stillness of dawn on this fine fall morning in the Hudson River valley at Storm King Mountain... a tugboat shoving an empty barge down river towards New ... (more)
On what had been an overcast and rainy day, a beautiful sunset began to look really promising. So I made a mad dash from my home in Manhattan to Queens in time to catch this Flushing-bound No.7 Ex... (more)
At sunrise on a cool winter morning, Friends of the Rail's ex- South African Railways class 19D 4-8-2 no. 2650 is shrouded in steam at the club's Capital Park depot.
Four class 10E1 heavy haul electrics speed through Hamelfontein junction into the setting sun, returning empty hoppers from Ermelo to one of the coal mines around Witbank.
In the shadow of the Bear Mountain bridge, two Conrail SD50's exit Fort Montgomery tunnel and cross Popolopen Creek, as they head down the River Line to New Jersey with a K-Line doublestack. By sp... (more)
