Mount Beacon - A Metro North train passes across the mouth of Fishkill Creek and in front of the highest peak in the Hudson Highlands - Mount Beacon. The mountain has two summits; North... (more)

Fishkill Creek - An Amtrak train destined for Croton-Harmon passes over a creek emptying into the Hudson River.

Outlawed CSX Q431 sits just north of Metro North's Beacon Station during the PM peak hour as a southbound Amtrak approaches. It is unusual for CSX trains to outlaw here as they usually make it dow... (more)

A southbound Empire Service train rounds the curve into the Metro-North station at Breakneck Ridge. An icy Hudson River and the city of Newburgh are in the background.

Ken Patton caught this Boston bound OB-2 on the Maybrook line in Beacon, NY The FA-1 on the lead is followed by an FM H1644 and an Alco RS-11. Shortly after this shot these first generation motor... (more)

The first rays of sunlight are just hitting the landscape as Amtrak’s Empire Service train #230 passes Pollepel Island. The castle ruins were once the warehouses of a Scottish arms merchant who ... (more)

Former Bee-liners

This is the New York to Detroit through train (which will skirt through southern Ontario on its way to the Motor City) passing Bannerman Castle in Beacon NY.. I want to thank railfan Ray Wetzel fo... (more)

A Metro North Poughkeepsie-GCT bound train approaches the Beacon station on Labor Day of 08 at about 3:50. This shot was taken from a park along the Hudson River. The second car behind the cab car... (more)

The sun makes a brief appearance as one of Metro North's rebuilt F units leads a train of commuters through the Hudson Valley.

Two EL RS-3s still in Erie paint upon arrival at Beacon, NY with an excursion special. This train traveled from Hoboken, N.J., via EL to Campbell Hall, N.Y., getting on the NH Maybrook line, cros... (more)

A northbound local with MNRR 227 at the lead. The station pedestrian bridge and Newburg-Beacon Bridge are seen in the background. Taken With Canon Digital Rebel.