Having made a drop and large pull at Pemex, the Baja California Railroad's road job heads back to Tijuana, alerting the locals to the coming train. Traffic was embargoed at this location at one po... (more)

Today's Officer's Special on the former SP Coast Line is seen passing by the beach in Serena on Santa Clause Lane (just a couple minutes from Carpenteria.

Wearing a badly faded version of Amtrak's silver and black switcher scheme, CF7 #598 shunts amid the festivities of the LAUPT 50th. This engine began life as Santa Fe F7(A) #211C in 9/49. It was ... (more)

During a winter thaw, we see two Conrail local trains at Harmon NY, one made up of Budd Metropolitan (M-1) cars in MTA colors, the other Budd RDC1s (Beeliners) in New York Central colors. The RDCs... (more)

The Salt City Express (named for Syracuse, NY) nears the end of its run as it slows for the platforms at Croton-Harmon. Built in 1976, this Rohr RTL Turboliner was brand new (in fact so new that ... (more)

On the very last day of the 1970s decade, Long Island Railroad train #508 to Oyster Bay is being pulled by a diesel on the other end. This Alco FA1 is a Power Pack car, with its 244 prime mover r... (more)

This is how a day of rail fanning would begin for me in 1977 - a parent would drop me at the Oradell train station and I would ride the Conrail passenger train off to wherever I was going. On this... (more)

The house switcher at "Scraporano" was a Pennsy S12, which shunted locomotives around that were going to the torch. The unit was purchased as scrap from the Penn Central, but the folks at Naporano... (more)

A PHL Dock Job has just pulled a cut of cars from Berth 200 Yard and begins to shove them back towards Badger Bridge with the experimental Joule doing all the work.

Amtrak's Silver Star heads north after making a Hollywood stop on its way from Miami to New York. This train began life in 1947, running under the Seaboard Air Line. F40PH 407 was part of Amtrak... (more)

Suffering through the last months before I got a driver's license, I traveled by train as much as possible. On this particular day I took Amtrak from my home in New Jersey to my uncle's house in D... (more)

Railfanning in rural "South-Central adjacent." "The Torrance," has just crossed over the Harbor Freeway (I-110) and is approaching Figueroa as it works its way back to LA. While on the Torrance In... (more)

The engineer from "The Colonial" (AMT train #174) watches with a railfan as a "Philadelphia Clocker" (Amt train #213) heads west behind a r/w/b GG1. Amtrak only painted seven of the GG1s in this ... (more)

There's something in the wood! This crossing is at one of two streets right next to each other, both named Bower (and connecting at a point that is not on the map). The Fore River Railroad runs fr... (more)

On the left is the Scoot to Bayonne, lead by RDC1 #553, a 1954 Budd. On the right, is a Raritan bound train. Its cab car was one of four that were fabricated our of steel coaches in CNJ’s Eliza... (more)