Exploring the Reading & Northern. On Saturday, April 15, 2023, the Railroad Historians of the Lehigh Valley and the Lehigh Valley Chapter, National Railway Historical Society sponsored a â€... (more)

Call Conrail. NJ Transit Conrail Heritage Unit GP40PH-2B NJTR 4208 (ex-CR 3191, née-Penn Central 3191, EMD, GP40, 10/1968) was the power for deadhead train X120 on April 8, 2025, seen cros... (more)

Winding Down The "Metro-North Commuter Railroad" Scheme. Nine years ago today on April 14, 2016, MNCW GP35r 101 (née-Reading 3641, GP35, EMD, 8/1964) was assigned to tow a "... (more)

Close Clearance. On the night of Wednesday, April 8, 2025, MTA Metro-North Railroad's PMMO (Night MOtt Haven switch job) transferred the third leased CT Rail GP40-3H from Croton Harmon Shop... (more)

R-46s Move In The Street. On the rainy morning of April 12, 2025, NYNJ Rail transported an 8-car train of Pullman-Standard R-46 subway cars from the South Brooklyn Railway interchange to th... (more)

R-46s Move In The Street. On the rainy morning of April 12, 2025, NYNJ Rail transported an 8-car train of Pullman-Standard R-46 subway cars from the South Brooklyn Railway interchange to th... (more)

First To R-46s To Leave. The Beginning Of The End Of The Pullman Era. On the night of Thursday, April 10, 2025, MTA NYCT Subway transported a 8-car train of Pullman-Standard R-46 subway car... (more)

Improvised Blue Striped Farewell. The Beginning Of The End Of The Pullman Era. On the night of Thursday, April 10, 2025, MTA NYCT Subway transported a 8-car train of Pullman-Standard R-46 s... (more)

Haven't Seen Black Diamonds In Forever. A recent change in CSX's routing has brought unit coal trains to New York. As part of the detours around Baltimore to accommodate tunnel work, CSX C7... (more)

Overview of Rebuilding. The more than 130 year-old Park Avenue Viaduct around the MTA Metro-North Railroad Harlem-125 Street Station in New York, New York, is undergoing a multi-year rebuil... (more)

Hippos Ride Again. On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, the HHP-C qualification train operated a round trip from Sunnyside Yard in New York to Wilmington, Delaware as Train 874/873. With the recent o... (more)

Interesting Locals Meet At Riverdale. On Saturday, March 15, 2025, MTA Metro-North Railroad Trains 8733 and 8734 met in the station at Riverdale in the Bronx, New York. While locomotive pow... (more)

49 Years Old Today. The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was created on April 1, 1976 to bring together the passenger and freight service of 7 large railroad companies and their subs... (more)

Loco With A Point at Point-No-Point. On Sunday, March 30, 2025, CSX M403-30 made the trip from Selkirk, New York to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with CSXT 911 (ES44AH, Spirit Of Our First Res... (more)

The Prescription is MO Charger. On the night of Sunday, March 30, 2025, MTA Metro-North Railroad/Siemens SC42-DMs MNCW 301 and 302 traveled around the wye at MO in Mott Haven in the Bronx, ... (more)