On an early spring morning, only a few evergreens are providing some greenery, as Amtrak train 69, the 'Adirondack' to Montreal, passes through the Metro-North station at Garrison, NY on its way u... (more)

A beautiful spring morning provided an opportunity to get this picture postcard shot, taken in the Hudson River valley on Memorial Day weekend. CSX GE ES44AC's 3381 and 3281 lead an intermodal dow... (more)

Purple People Push-Pulls... perhaps a good way to describe the coming and going of these two MBTA MPI HSP46 locomotives at Boston South Station. 2024 is just pulling into Track 3, while sister 203... (more)

Boston South Station at the beginning of the afternoon peak, with F40PHM-2C #1027 about to depart from Track 6, while a MPI HSP46 #2026 waits its turn in the background on Track 11. Over on the le... (more)

Daybreak in the Hudson River valley finds one of Amtrak's "training trains" heading south on Metro-North's Hudson line to New York City's Grand Central Terminal. These training runs oper... (more)

At dusk on a spring evening, an empty Z train waits on the Express center track at Hewes Street station in Brooklyn, while an inbound J train makes its station stop, so that it can follow the J in... (more)

The rising sun has just broken the horizon in Queens, New York, as an early morning A train running from Far Rockaway to Manhattan, crosses the North Channel of Jamaica Bay and heads to its next s... (more)

At dawn on a winter morning, my camera catches the spark from an electrical third rail shoe, marking the passage of an early morning A train running from Far Rockaway to Manhattan, as it crosses t... (more)

There is plenty of New York City history in this photograph! The dome of the landmark former Williamsburg Savings Bank Building (1875), together with the towers of the Williamsburg Bridge (1903), ... (more)

Sunrise on a cool spring morning brings a golden glow to the view from Smith-9th Street in Brooklyn, across the rooftops of Carroll Gardens, to the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan rising in the bac... (more)

With dawn breaking over Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, a Manhattan-bound F train heads down the ramp from Smith-9th Street station, into the tunnel that will take it underground through four more s... (more)

In the late night and early morning hours, when train frequencies are at their lowest, the 'garbage trains' ply the various divisions of the New York City subway system, collecting bags of rubbish... (more)

Look up! This tourist guide has wisely brought his group into Grand Central Terminal fairly early on a Saturday morning and has them admiring the many features that make this such a special place ... (more)

Where shall I go today? The 9:43 to Poughkeepsie is the pick of the bunch, locomotive hauled and headed up the east bank of the Hudson River. But with an hour to go until departure time, I'll enjo... (more)

Early on a Saturday morning, scheduled weekend maintenance on the IRT Flushing line provides an unusual opportunity to catch this inbound No.7 train arriving at Queensboro Plaza on the upper level... (more)