"The First Bite" One of Gershow Recycling's excavators equipped with a hydraulic shear takes it's "first bite" from Louisville & Indiana Railroad SW1200 #9321, beginning the scrapping proc... (more)

"Ducking Under Pitkin Ave" Louisville & Indiana Railroad SW1200 #9321 & NYA SW1001 #101 have just ducked under Pitkin Avenue on Gershow Recycling's track just off the Bay Ridge Branch in t... (more)

"Death March" Louisville & Indiana Railroad SW1200 #9321 begins it's short "death march" down Gershow Recycling's track just off the Bay Ridge Branch in the East New York area of Brooklyn.... (more)

"Tanks Drained" Louisville & Indiana Railroad SW1200 #9321 sits "coupled" to NYA SW1001 #101 on the Bay Ridge Branch in the East New York area of Brooklyn. It's fuel tank has just been dra... (more)

"L&I SW awaits It's Fate in Brooklyn" Louisville & Indiana Railroad SW1200 #9321 sits dormant on the "Heritage Paper" track just off of the Bay Ridge Branch in the Brownsville area of Broo... (more)

Allow me to reintroduce myself. With the mechanical problems that have plagues the recently arrived Bombardier built R-179s, the MTA New York City Transit Subway 1969-70 St. Louis Car Company R-42... (more)

Allow me to reintroduce myself. With the mechanical problems that have plagues the recently arrived Bombardier built R-179s, the MTA New York City Transit Subway 1969-70 St. Louis Car Company R-42... (more)

"Leaser on the Newtown Creek" CITX GP38-2 402 leads New York & Atlantic Railway's RS-90 east towards the Newtown Creek on the Bushwick Branch in Brooklyn. The train is on it's wa... (more)

Neither gone, nor forgotten. Former Long Island Rail Road cars 2103 and 2104 were retired two decades ago, but have found a new home. The out of use tracks of the Brooklyn Army Terminal Railway st... (more)

Looking out from Brooklyn Union Elevated car 1404 (Jewett/Pressed Steel, 1907), IND/NYCT R1 100 (ACF, 1930-31) is moving south towards Brighton Beach at the New York Transit Museum 2019 Parade of ... (more)

The 2019 Parade of Trains held by the New York Transit Museum was as a always a well attended event. At the end of the day on Saturday, September 28, 2019, the equipment was lined up outside of th... (more)

Tucked inside the shops at Kent Street, Brooklyn East District Terminal S1 23 is having some service performed.

Brooklyn East District Terminal S1 26 faces the upper Manhattan skyline on a hot July day. The slips for one of the last carfloat operations in New York can be seen extending out into the East Riv... (more)

Power of the combined Brooklyn East District Terminal and New York Dock roster occupy the BEDT engine house. From left to right are BEDT S1 22, NYD GE 44-ton 51, and newly-acquired Southern NW2 10... (more)

Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal gained some railfan notoriety in the early 1960’s, operating a fleet of 0-6-0 tank engines into 1963. In that year, the switching road in the Williamsburg distri... (more)