Sitting among the detritus of Conrail's Elizabethport Shops area back in 1982 were these two E8s being used at parts sources. Penn Central E8(A) #4321 was delivered to the New York Central as thei... (more)

A "bitty" coal train to the coke works (probably HB8, "The Star") comes off the old Lehigh Valley Main (on the south bank of the Lehigh River) and enters the old Reading Bethlehem Branch, passing ... (more)

This morning's only Summit train arrives at Railroad Dock to meet passengers from the Volendam. This train will gather a compliment of passengers from the Holland American ship, prior to pulling u... (more)

Although this is listed as an EMD SW1, it's really an EMC SW1, from before EMC was purchased by GM. Beautifully restored by the folks at SCRM, SP 1006 has just shoved its train to the end of track... (more)

From the grounds in front of the old Ford Plant, we see a NYSW local working with two nicely painted RS1s. By 1980 the RS1s were pretty much relegated to the Edgewater Branch. Today, both the bra... (more)

A lifeguard prepares to end her day while Amtrak's Surfliner 785 slips by Richard Nixon's old Western White House behind her.

New York Cross Harbor Railroad S1 #25 street running on 2nd Avenue near Bush Terminal in Brooklyn New York on May 1, 1998, gets some protection from the city's finest as the crew tries to figure o... (more)

The Raritan River Railroad local turned a rail on this hot day. We found the train sitting like this, with the hammer beside it, indicating that someone had at least started working on fixing thin... (more)

Crud the Genset blew up! Although this track is old Los Angeles & Salt Lake, so I'm not sure it's right to call the SW1500 by its SP moniker of Crud, and the Genset didn't really blow up, but it ... (more)

Century 628 #3123 awaits a sad fate in the boneyard of the Bull Ring. Even as I clicked this frame on my Fujica ST-801, I was thinking that I couldn't wait to write Jim Edmonston for his Trackside... (more)

Grand Central Terminal on 42nd between Lex and Madison - Opened on Feburary 2, 1913, Manhattan's only surviving large station (Pennsylvania Station was razed in 1964), hosts 67 tracks on two level... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Wabash heritage unit awaits its next assignment in Union Pacific's Dolores Yard in Carson, CA. Note all the store UP power to the side.

This is the view on August 6, 1978 from the extremely rickety and ancient steel footbridge over the Southern Pacific's small Bull Ring Yard in downtown Los Angeles, a second-generation diesel love... (more)

The cabs from a Baltimore & Ohio S4 and a Conrail C630 sit among the detritus of reclaimed steel at "Scraporano." Naporano was not fan friendly, but on Sundays it was closed and there was a back g... (more)

How many Alcos can you count? I arrived just as this Century began to smoke up the air on Tax Day in 2004. Up above, a string of Alcos on a storage track, while another sits in the shop and anoth... (more)