Maintenance Underway. Track crews were hard at work on 12/11/2022 replacing switches south of Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station on the Lexington Avenue Line (4/5/6), as seen from one of... (more)

Endangered. New York Central Railroad (NYC) S-1 no. 6000 (ALCO/GE, 1904) and T-3a no. 278 (ALCO/GE, 1926) are seen at the Port of Albany, on land where they have been stored for the pas... (more)

As Above, So Below. Two R188 trains (Kawasaki, 2010-2016) crawl into and out of Queensboro Plaza station on the double-deck curve. I was paying so much attention to the incoming train w... (more)

An Island Paradise in the City. It would be very easy to lose track of the world outside the brightly-colored walls of the Rockaway Beach Surf Club while enjoying the tacos, refreshing ... (more)

ALCO in Schenectady. Great Northern (GN) RS3 no. 229 (ALCO, 1953) is seen on display at the Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci) in Schenectady, NY; the city where the locomotive wa... (more)

A Little Bit of Everything. Amtrak ACS-64 237 is seen leading train 161(24) down the Hell Gate Bridge into Queens, passing over the Astoria Line of the NYC Subway. Weekend work was well ... (more)

Maintaining an Icon. New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) flat car F202 is seen on the business end of a herbicide train on the iconic curve south of Queensboro Plaza - the pilot is l... (more)

Union Station Quadfecta. MARC, VRE, Amtrak, and Metrorail trains are seen north of Union Station, capturing all four passenger railroads that operate through Union Station.

Engine Trouble. New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R3 motor flat no. 41 (Magor Car Corp., 1931-1932) sits on the back of a lo-boy trailer from Silk Road Specialized, awaiting depart... (more)

New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) Corona Yard was chock full of white rolling stock on September 4, 1982 when R. Anastasio snapped this shot! This eastern section of the yard no longer exist... (more)

Modern Museum Piece. CSX Transportation SD45-2 no. 8954 (née Seaboard Coast Line 2049) is seen on display at the Southeastern Railway Museum. Despite its fresh paint and livery of an e... (more)

Steam, Diesel, and Electric. Union Pacific 4014 spent Labor Day 2021 on display with UP 1989, the Rio Grande heritage unit, at the railroad's Denver Yard; the last stop on the Big Boy's ... (more)

Making New Friends. New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R47 locomotive no. 70 (GE, 1975) sits on the front of a "power pack" as locomotive 890 makes the first connection with the fir... (more)

Heritage Units. UP 1989, the Rio Grande heritage unit, pauses briefly near 38th-Blake RTD station while preparing to couple to part of the railroad's executive train that arrived in town... (more)

Bottom Level. Two New York & Atlantic MP15AC locomotives idle beneath 8 Av station. I found them here by sheer luck; I had gotten off to photograph something else and thought, "huh, the fre... (more)