A Grand Birthday. On February 1, 1913, the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad opened the Beaux-Arts style Reed and Stem/Warren and Wetmore designed Grand Central Terminal to the publi... (more)

The Shenandoah Valley Limited, powered by J 611 is making a run for North Mountain, after backing out of Victoria Station onto the main line. An almost blemish-free operating season for VMT’s St... (more)

Conemaugh & Black Lick’s newest arrival #51 is at the interchange with Norfolk Southern at Woodvale Yard. The Woodvale section of Johnstown used to be much busier, as remnants of the steel mills... (more)

Penn Central Day. February 1, 1968 is a notable day in railroad history, as the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads merged to form the “Pennsylvania New York Central Transportatio... (more)

Top Design. It was not an April Fools' joke but very real on February 1, 2007, when the platforms at Grand Central on the MTA NYCT Subway 42nd Street Shuttle were given an upgrade by the re... (more)

All is quiet in Hickory, NC as the Caldwell County Railroad is becoming tougher to predict operations. The 1747 has been wearing the same coat of paint for almost 44 years, while the 1811 is about... (more)

NW 6162 and L&N 7067 pause on the Kentucky Steam wye on a dreary day. An event led by Casey Thomason yielded great results despite threatening forecasts. A great event for a great cause!

Old steel chariots pose for some night shots as a light rain starts to fall at Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp.

Fellow photogs snap night shots at a photo charter at Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp.

NW 6162 pauses on the Kentucky Steam wye on a dreary day. An event led by Casey Thomason yielded great results despite threatening forecasts. A great event for a great cause!

B&O Unlocked. The B&O Railroad Museum is running a year long program in 2024 to allow visitors to go inside of a different piece of equipment each month on select days. In January it was fo... (more)

LIRR Goes To The Movies. On January 31, 2013, morning commuters noticed a change to the MTA Long Island Rail Road Bayside Station in Bayside, Queens, New York. Signs informing passengers of... (more)

Beginning my trek to document trains as a wee lad in 1975, this paint scheme was omnipresent in those formative years when we still shot film and recorded on cassettes. 7067 has been cosmetically... (more)

Ex-SCL SD45 #2034, once converted to an SD40M-2, now rests on display atop the hill overlooking RJCC's operations center in Lexington, roughly the halfway point on the ex-L&N Old Road, previously ... (more)

Full Mooned At EMD. At blue hour on January 28, 2021, EMDX 70 (SD70ACe) sits at the Progress Rail/EMD LaGrange facility in McCook, Illinois as the moon rises in the background. This locomot... (more)