A southbound Danbury Shuttle approaches its station stop at Merritt 7, so-named because the area is at the junction of two major highways, U.S. 7 and the Merritt Parkway. A large office and reside... (more)

A southbound Danbury Branch train cruises past the old station at Bethel, now home to the Broken Symmetry Gastro Brewery. Metro-North moved their Bethel station to roomier digs about a half-mile n... (more)

A late afternoon Bridgeport-Waterbury shuttle works its way toward Waterbury. This is the point where the New Haven Railroad's famed Maybrook Line split from their line up to Waterbury through the... (more)

A southbound Empire Service train clears the tunnels at Breakneck Ridge, with New York Penn about an hour ahead of it.

BNSF hump operations at Tennessee Yard were on brief hiatus with the COVID-19 crisis, but have recently resumed. Here, a set of SD60Ms pushes a cut of cars over the hump, with downtown Memphis in ... (more)

The Pennsylvania Railroad (and by extension, Long Island Railroad), New York Central and New Haven were the only railroads with the wherewithal to come directly onto Manhattan Island. The other ra... (more)

This view of a southbound CTrail train shows how much the Amtrak Springfield Line has been shoehorned between the CTfastrak busway and Interstate 84. That's the busway's Sigourney Street station. ... (more)

Looks like the passengers on today's Reading & Northern Fall Foliage Excursion who bought tickets to see the leaves are getting their money's worth.

A New Haven-bound CTrail train is on the roll out of Hartford's Union Station, with the Hartford skyline as a backdrop. When the big project to replace adjacent Interstate 84 gets underway, the pl... (more)

When most people think of New England, quaint villages and fall colors are the first things that spring to mind. Go back 100 years and more, however, and you'd find a region filled with factories ... (more)

Reading & Northern's weekend fall foliage trains run from North Reading's Outer Station to Jim Thorpe, with a four-hour layover in Jim Thorpe to allow passengers to enjoy the sights, or even take ... (more)

Reading & Northern is running weekend fall foliage specials using a pair of Budd RDCs from Reading Outer Station to Jim Thorpe via Tamaqua. The 120-mile roundtrip operates over the R&N's main line... (more)

This is the shape of things to come on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston, as their new Alstom Avelia Liberty trainset makes an appearance east of New York City for the firs... (more)

Why settle for a mere 4,200 horsepower to haul the four-car Boston section of Amtrak's "Lake Shore Limited" when you can throw 12,600 horsepower at it for good measure? This view is at W... (more)

An NJ Transit set of Bombardier MultiLevel coaches is southbound out of New York's Penn Station, having just made its station stop at Secaucus Junction. Here, it crosses the Hackensack River on th... (more)