The Philadelphia Pennsylvania firm, the Baldwin Locomotive Works, built it's last locomotive by 1956. While we will never be able to stand in BLW's erecting halls, we can gaze upon this scene o... (more)

One of the things I am finding on the MTA subway system is infrastructure that is long gone on the big main lines. Of the several subway towers I have seen, all but one were in good shape and I as... (more)

It's a race! Here we are at the west end of Astoria Queen's vast Sunnyside Yard seeing the inbound No.7 and the westbound ACELA about to plunge into the East River tunnels on their respective trip... (more)

I think many people, including natives such as myself, tend to think that New York City is laid out on flat 4x8' plywood tables. I submit with this image that it is not. Looking west from the M li... (more)

Outbound from Manhattan, a evening rush consist of St. Louis Car Company R-42 cars built in 1969-70, is seen leaving Brooklyn's Marcy St. Street station while negotiating the crossover to the outb... (more)

Quick! Can you name all the wooden catenary pole, single track electric railroads in the USA? Well, please let me know if there is more than one because I can't think of any besides NJ Transit's G... (more)

Millington Trestle is the infrastructure highlight of NJ Transit's Gladstone Ranch. The last time I railfaned this line, the original DL&W MU's were on their last legs. Thirty years later the repl... (more)

Here you see some snow, Grand Central Terminal, the Chrysler building and an eagle statue that is older than either of the buildings. The eagle was some of the garnishment of the previous Grand Ce... (more)

I love how this is my town's train station...here it is on a snowy evening...

My first railroad book was Lucius Beebe's "High Iron." It was one of his early books that helped set the standard of the "smoking wedge." In collecting every one of his books, I often wondered if ... (more)

These t-bolts are used to attach superheater units to the superheater header of NYS&W 2-8-2 steam locomotive No. 142. During the past few years since the loco has come back to service, the steam t... (more)

Four people were killed and 63 were injured after a Metro North Hudson Line train derailed in the Bronx, New York City at 7:20am December 1, 2013. Operating in a locomotive push mode, the train... (more)

Four people were killed and 63 were injured after a Metro North Hudson Line train derailed in the Bronx, New York City at 7:20am December 1, 2013. Operating in a locomotive-pushing manner, it w... (more)

Four people were killed and 63 were injured after a Metro North Hudson Line train derailed in the Bronx, New York City at 7:20am December 1, 2013. Operating in a locomotive-pushing manner, it w... (more)

LIRR's No. 423 is tip-toeing at walking speed out of the gritty Long Island City, Queens, New York Passenger Yard on it's way to pick up it's load of commuters at the railroads Hunterspoint Avenue... (more)