In the shops, taken with permission.

The fisherman saw me before this train came, and I heard them talking among themselves about what I was doing. My hobby is not much different their theirs; being outside, planning, waiting, and t... (more)

A southbound Amtrak train kicks up a rather significant rooster tail as it highballs toward Baltimore.

Construction is underway to enclose this entire area (note the large yellow beam) for real estate and commercial development. A Northeast Regional is about to arrive at Penn Station and was captu... (more)

This NEC veteran is departing NYP through the open air portion that will soon be enclosed.

Here's a rather typical well lit 3/4 wedgie of train 20's (the Crescent) new locomotive heading to be coupled to its train.

Amtrak's Crescent has just departed Newark, the first stop en route from New York to New Orleans.

A Northeast Regional speeds off into the sunset on its way to Washington, DC.

The Beech Grove office car brings up the markers as this Northeast Regional heads up the road under threatening skies.

Two MARC Meatballs head up this evening commuter train boarding for an on time departure.

It's train time.

The September sunsets in New Jersey can be spectacular. By the middle of the 1980s I got to be friends with many railroaders. An especially influential friend of that era was Steve Turkenkopf, an ... (more)

Heading out of town after making its stop in Wilmington.

Pulling into BWI on a summer evening.

The beginning of the end... The well known open area between the tubes and Penn Station will be forever enclosed as work progresses that will result in two towers (residential and commercial) ere... (more)