Passengers have a great view of the Hudson River as a Rohr Turboliner covering a northbound Empire Service run speeds north of Cold Spring, NY, on a fine summer day.

The twin tunnels through Breakneck Ridge north of Cold Spring, NY, have seen numerous generations of equipment come and go on the Hudson Line. In the late 1970s, the newest thing was the Rohr Turb... (more)

After checking out Break Neck Ridge I moved to Cold Spring. Empire Service Train 237 has P32AC-DM 705 that needs a paint job. All the Amtrak runs witnessed at Break Neck had the new Empire Service... (more)

In 1978 Conrail was the contract operator for the New York MTA's Hudson Line service and the standard consist for off-peak Poughkeepsie shuttles was a pair of well-worn FL9s sandwiching a pair of ... (more)

Conrail FL9 5039 heads up a Poughkeepsie to Croton-Harmon shuttle southbound along the Hudson at Cold Spring, NY. The FL9/coach/coach/FL9 set represented the standard off peak consist at the time.... (more)

As seen from the top of Breakneck Ridge north of Cold Spring, NY, an Amtrak Turboliner races up the Hudson Valley towards Albany. I later learned that the rock formation on which I was innocently ... (more)

The 712 leads a southbound Empire Service Train out of Breakneck tunnel.

Snow flurries were in the air as a borrowed Conrail U30B and a dirty Amtrak E8 rolled north through the Hudson Valley at Cold Spring, NY, with Amtrak train 63, the Niagara Rainbow out of Grand Cen... (more)

13.25 New York Penn - Niagara Falls "Niagara Rainbow" approaches Little Stony Point.

Amtrak Empire Service train #280 as seen traveling down the eastern shore on the former New York Central Water Level Route, captured from the Autumn Express traveling up the western shore of the H... (more)

A trio of former New York Central RDCs running as a Poughkeepsie to Croton-Harmon shuttle for Metro North has just exited the Breakneck Ridge tunnel north of Cold Spring, NY, on a largely snowless... (more)

With summer trackwork in progress on the Hudson Line, one of the Rohr Turbo sets assigned by Amtrak to Empire Service duties speeds south along the river at Cold Spring on its way to New York City... (more)

Conrail equipment on a Poughkeepsie bound train approaches the south portal of Breakneck Tunnel.

A Rohr Turbo set running northbound from New York to Albany exits the Breakneck Ridge tunnel at Cold Spring, NY, on a summer afternoon. The distinctive scent of jet fuel from its exhaust will hang... (more)

The summer sun is getting low in the Hudson Valley as an evening rush hour Grand Central-Poughkeepsie commuter run cants into the curve at Breakneck Ridge north of Cold Spring. A smart looking pai... (more)