Brakeman Bill Baskerville surveys his train from the rear platform of caboose No. 320. He is rolling southbound near Rosewood Crossing on the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington, a reconstructed 2 ... (more)

In the chill of a Maine evening long ago, just when the loons started their spooky song on the lake, you heard the equally haunting sounds of a machine, far off yet coming. Closer it came, the sou... (more)

A New York City Transit R142 No. 2 or 5 train is ready to head downtown in the yellow light of end of day. The brand new Transit service building on the left contrasts with the peeling paint of th... (more)

When new in 1912, this impressive building was the world headquarters of the greatest electric commuter railroad that had ever been built. Grade separated throughout, with gigantic concrete statio... (more)

An R160 train has just left Stillwell Avenue station at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York for it's journey through Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. It is because of trains like these that the Tran... (more)

The No. 4 train and Yankee Stadium. Yankees won.

Amtrak ACELA 2022 zips through Sunnyside Yard in Queens, New York one chilly January evening.

Baldwin Locomotive Works No. 26 rolled out of the Baldwin plant in Eddystone Pennsylvania in March 1929. Interestingly rather than selling it, the Baldwin company retained the locomotive for switc... (more)

This is the only remaining McMyler Coal Unloader in the New York/New Jersey area. It is located in Port Reading, NJ on the water way known as the Arthur Kill. The Reading Railroad built it in 1917... (more)

I feel bad for all my friends who spend hours outside at night in the cold shooting the stars. Why, whenever I want to do that, i just come in here...(I know, I know, the stars are reversed. I dea... (more)

A No. 1 train heads uptown on the upper west side of Manhattan having just left the 125th St Station. With this shot, I am taken by how interwoven the subway is with the neighborhood it serves. Al... (more)

One of the most unlikely steam restorations in memory, one that took years and years of knuckle-busting work, all of it done outside, has resulted in a very successful resurrection.

And why di... (more)

Moodna Viaduct, opened in 1909, is an iron railroad trestle in Cornwall, New York, near the village of Salisbury Mills. It spans Moodna Creek and its valley north of Schunemunk Mountain. The trest... (more)

Moodna Viaduct is an iron railroad trestle in Cornwall, New York, near the village of Salisbury Mills which spans Moodna Creek and its valley north of Schunemunk Mountain. Construction began in 19... (more)

One of the scenic highlights of the eastern United States is the Lehigh River Gorge north of Jim Thorpe PA. Here, steep hills (for the east at least) were cleaved by the Lehigh River. In the 1800'... (more)