R&N 425 2 miles south of Tunkhannock, PA on Roosevelt Highway minutes from finishing an all-day round trip to Jim Thorpe over former CNJ and Lehigh Valley rails. Note the new red and brass number ... (more)

Here is the Federal Railroad Administration's No. 217 Office of Safety vehicle AKA Track Geometry car. I did not know of it's existence. It is seen here on Amtrak's National Train Day, May 8, 2010... (more)

An O-gauge New Haven F3 done up in Herbert Matter's Knoll and Associates patch scheme enjoys being on display in the beautiful Cass Gilbert-designed New Haven Connecticut station on Amtrak's 3rd N... (more)

Grand Trunk Western No. 5632, plinthed in Durand Michigan, is a K-4-b class 4-6-2 Pacific built in 1929 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. While it's appearance suffers by being shorn of it's jacket... (more)

Atlantic Coast Line No. 250, a 1910 Baldwin 4-6-0 and one of only four surviving ACL steamers, sits in front of the former company warehouse that is now the fine Wilmington Railroad Museum in Nort... (more)

Engineer Gary does a check on his BR&W SW 1200 at the end of day of drilling cars.

These are the controls of locomotive No. 97. They are what a newbie engineer uses for the first time with the Valley Railroad's "Your Hand On The Throttle" program. I believe the Valley was the fi... (more)

The wheels for the Valley Railroad's Tangshan 2-8-2 were refurbished by an outside facility and have recently arrived back in Essex. Soon the locomotive will be taken off blocks and be re-wheeled.

This is a view inside the Valley RR's "New Haven" No. 3025's smoke box. The locomotive is in the middle of rebuilding and is slated for a 2011 steam-up. The screen, the stack, the superheater tube... (more)

This is not something you see every day. The 142 has had all 96 of her tubes removed. So that you could see many of the tube holes, the Chief Mechanical Officer set up two lights inside the boiler... (more)

NYS&W No. 142's smokebox door is open while repairs are being done to her innards.

NJ Transit 4405 zips northbound to NY Penn Station from Atlantic City with the ACES train. I imagine most wallets on this return from the gaming city trip are rather thin. This is a follow zoom s... (more)

A NJ Transit MU train leaves SB out of Newark NJ Penn Station during the evening rush one late December evening.

Amtrak 938 AEM-7, one of the locomotives that eclipsed the GG-1, rolls over the Dock bridge into Newark Penn Station with a SB Regional on a December evening.

This is back in the day when NJ Transit was our very own living railroad museum! The vintage DL&W equipment was running out it's final miles. The end came a few days after I took this shot on Augu... (more)