In 1978 Conrail was the contract operator for the New York MTA's Hudson Line service and the standard consist for off-peak Poughkeepsie shuttles was a pair of well-worn FL9s sandwiching a pair of ... (more)

Conrail FL9 5039 heads up a Poughkeepsie to Croton-Harmon shuttle southbound along the Hudson at Cold Spring, NY. The FL9/coach/coach/FL9 set represented the standard off peak consist at the time.... (more)

As seen from the top of Breakneck Ridge north of Cold Spring, NY, an Amtrak Turboliner races up the Hudson Valley towards Albany. I later learned that the rock formation on which I was innocently ... (more)

The 712 leads a southbound Empire Service Train out of Breakneck tunnel.

Snow flurries were in the air as a borrowed Conrail U30B and a dirty Amtrak E8 rolled north through the Hudson Valley at Cold Spring, NY, with Amtrak train 63, the Niagara Rainbow out of Grand Cen... (more)

13.25 New York Penn - Niagara Falls "Niagara Rainbow" approaches Little Stony Point.

Amtrak Empire Service train #280 as seen traveling down the eastern shore on the former New York Central Water Level Route, captured from the Autumn Express traveling up the western shore of the H... (more)

A trio of former New York Central RDCs running as a Poughkeepsie to Croton-Harmon shuttle for Metro North has just exited the Breakneck Ridge tunnel north of Cold Spring, NY, on a largely snowless... (more)

With summer trackwork in progress on the Hudson Line, one of the Rohr Turbo sets assigned by Amtrak to Empire Service duties speeds south along the river at Cold Spring on its way to New York City... (more)

Conrail equipment on a Poughkeepsie bound train approaches the south portal of Breakneck Tunnel.

A Rohr Turbo set running northbound from New York to Albany exits the Breakneck Ridge tunnel at Cold Spring, NY, on a summer afternoon. The distinctive scent of jet fuel from its exhaust will hang... (more)

The summer sun is getting low in the Hudson Valley as an evening rush hour Grand Central-Poughkeepsie commuter run cants into the curve at Breakneck Ridge north of Cold Spring. A smart looking pai... (more)

A pair of Metro North's short-lived Budd SPV-2000s glides south along the Hudson at Cold Spring, NY, on a hot and hazy summer afternoon. They're running as a Pougkeepsie to Croton-Harmon shuttle, ... (more)

With a GE P32AC-DM shoving on the rear, Metro North train 850 from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Terminal in New York, has just exited the west bore of the tunnel below Breakneck Mountain and is p... (more)

Metro North 8843 pulls in to Cold Spring on a gorgeous late May afternoon.