There is a lot going on here, so stay with me: For four days in late December (the 26th through the 29th), Metrolink had their entire commuter train system shut down. Much of this was because Lo... (more)

Amtrak Northeast Regional 125 has arrived in New York’s Penn Station as it heads from Springfield, Massachusetts, to Newport News, Virginia. Amtrak ACS-64 "City Sprinter" 661 w... (more)

Connecting Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal and Times Square is the 42nd Street Shuttle (often called the Grand Central/Times Square Shuttle). On this day, the train consisted of six Bombardier... (more)

About 59 minutes after bringing Metro-North train 846 from Poughkeepsie NY to New York City's Grand Central Terminal, CNDX P32AC-DM 230, which like all four of the Connecticut Department of Transp... (more)

One of the more interesting passenger trains in the United States recently was the Hoosier State, operated four times per week between Indianapolis, Indiana, and Chicago, Illinois, with thi... (more)

Operating on Track 3 at Metro-North’s Harlem-125th Street Station is (what I presume to be) MNCW train 1318, heading from Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal to Stamford, Connecticut. MNCW P32... (more)

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train 087 makes a stop in West Hingham as it carries commuters home from Boston to, eventually, Greenbush. MBTX F40PH-2C 1069, built in February 1988 by... (more)

A southbound Union Pacific freight sits in Mojave, on UP’s Mojave Sub. This train is powered by a quartet of SD70ACe locomotives: UP 8465, 8500, 8482 and 8455. In the distance is a Burlington ... (more)

A constant parade of short-distance passenger trains (Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners and Metrolink's commuter trains) passing through Fullerton, California, is broken up by only one pair of lo... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 784 departs Fullerton as the train heads for San Diego from Goleta. CDTX SC-44 2119 has the six-car train in tow this evening. (Fullerton, California – January ... (more)

Backing down to run around its train is Strasburg Railroad 2-6-0 89. This Mogul was built by Canadian Locomotive Company in February 1910 as Grand Trunk 1009. It was later renumbered GT 911, and... (more)

Chicago Transit Authority's Tower 18 controls movements on a number of Chicago CTA "El" lines (Green, Pink, Brown and Purple) in the Loop area. On the last evening of September, an Oran... (more)

The distinctive four-windshield face of a General Electric Dash 8-40CM, in this instance Canadian National Railway 2408, was found in the railway's Woodcrest Locomotive Shops some 28 years after i... (more)

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 whistles as it meets an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train at Casa Blanca, four miles west of the Riverside Amtrak/Metrolink station. The steam engine i... (more)

A southbound CSX merchandise train, led by ES44DC 5248 and leased HLCX SD40-2 6209 (originally BCOL 741), winds its way along the western shore of New York's Hudson River (CSX's River Sub). The po... (more)