"Pepto-Bismol Bonnet on the Pennsy"

K139 swings onto Hack Lift Bridge in Kearny on the Passaic and Harsimus Branch while Y122 drills intermodal buckets on the adjacent track.

"Lightning Stripes on the Pennsy, Part Two"

33K continues down the P&H, making a left turn at CP Karny and crossing the Passaic River via Point-no-Point Bridge. Visible... (more)

A "married pair" of NJ Transit Arrow III EMUs are shopped at the MMC for some attention. At 40+ years old, the venerable Arrows may be on borrowed time.

"The Standard Railroad of the World"

Though gone for 50 years, there is still a plethora of infrastructure built by the Pennsylvania Railroad that still exists today. T... (more)

Amtrak Northeast Regional #99 crosses Portal Bridge in Kearny, NJ, upon departing New York Penn Station. Powered by ACS-64 #613, the train is still hours away from reaching its final destination o... (more)

An NJ transit train shoves east on the Northeast Corridor (NEC) across the Hackensack River from Kearny to Secaucus, NJ. The train is moving slowly across this 100+ year old, double-track, swing ... (more)

E-44's are awaiting the call to duty on the ready tracks at the Meadows Yard servicing facility. NJT's Meadowlands Maintenance Complex was built on this site.

A Metro-North F40PH in NJ Transit's MMC locomotive shop for some work.

GP40PH-2B 4211 is on display at MMC Family Day 2017 as a representative of NJ Transit's long-lived fleet of rebuilt GP40s.

NJ Transit GP40PH-2B 4209 sits adjacent to the load test station while a group of stored F40PHs can be seen in the distance at left.

Meatball on the Portal - The AEM-7s have all been retired, but not this 100+ year old bottleneck on the Northeast Corridor. Here at the Hackensack River 4 tracks merge into two with a s... (more)

"Trash Exports"

After waiting for a trackmobile to shuffle around some cars, the PN-13 shoves back against the outbound loaded trash cars from the New Jersey Rail Carri... (more)

East and westbound NJ Transit commuter trains meet on Amtrak's Portal Bridge in the late afternoon. This bridge has been in service for nearly 106 years as of the time of this photo. It was place... (more)

A weekend-only Newark Broad Street to Hoboken shuttle train stops at the employee-only MMC-ROC station which serves NJT's Meadowlands Maintenance Complex.

NEC Anachronism
The Portal Bridge is an anachronism on the Northeast Corridor, and it seems even more so with an Acela consist passing through it. This bridge has been in service for ... (more)