The third engine is putting out a pretty big exhaust cloud as this Reading & Northern train rolls south through Penobscot Yard, while RBMN SW1500 awaits its next call to duty.

Shootin' grease. Two crew members work the grease gun to lubricate the engine's bearings during the lunch stop at Jim Thorpe.

Acela crossing. The nation's fastest train, Amtrak's Acela Express trainset, is seen here crossing the Broadway Avenue Extension in Mystic, at the west end of the Mystic station platform. T... (more)

It's just another winter Monday morning in the Northeast as an Amtrak Acela trainset eases over the Shaw's Cove swing bridge just south of downtown New London, accelerating for a quick run along t... (more)

It is fitting that my first photo from 2010 added contains an engine numbered 2010, in this case an Amtrak Acela power car, as it heads eastward along Niantic Bay on its way toward New York and Wa... (more)

For my 844th photo accepted to RP, the subject can only be Union Pacific 4-8-4 844. Here we see the only mainline steam locomotive that has never been retired as she accelerates north out of White... (more)

47 miles from the Big Apple. On the busiest travel day of the year, the Sunday after Thanksgiving, Amtrak 939 hustles an 8-car Northeast Regional train south through Princeton Junction, exa... (more)

In this telephoto view from the Orchard Street crossing, NJT 4150 accelerates northward past the buildings that line 12th Street in downtown Hammonton on its way toward Philadelphia.

Former Canadian National M420W 3519 sits among other stored locomotives at the SRNJ's Winslow Junction yard. Coupled behind the coach at left is a former L&N and Long Island RR Alco FA-2, which wa... (more)

On the first weekend of revenue service, an Atlantic City Express Service (ACES) train speeds southbound past the former PRSL Berlin station. The first weekend in February will mark the one-year a... (more)

Conrail blue is reflected in a trackside pond caused by heavy rainfall as NS 5277 slowly approaches Asbury Avenue on the former Central Railroad of New Jersey mainline.

Along the New Jersey coastline, developers have worked to put as many houses as possible along the many coastal inlets and waterways, as seen here with the new condos and houses lining the banks o... (more)

Canadian National 0-6-0 7470 eases past the preserved Bartlett roundhouse during the return trip of the Mass Bay RRE Steam in the Snow excursion. The roundhouse, built in 1887-88 by the Portland &... (more)

On a cold night, the local mixed train ambles down the branchline, the warm glow from the lone coach visible in the distance. In reality, New Hope & Ivyland 2-8-0 40 is posed just north of Lahaska... (more)

Rooms with a view! A cold, windy January morning's solitude is broken by the sudden appearance of Amtrak AEM-7 923 hauling a 7-car Northeast Regional northbound. You can sit and watch train... (more)