Tacoma Rail's Hill Job passes through the iconic Milwaukee Road gulch on the east side of Tacoma Washington, under the city's skyline.

I was seeing reports for some time that the LOF67 (and LOF66 and LOF65) haulers out of GEMCO in Van Nuys CA and Guadalupe CA have been running with UP 2002, leading on the Van Nuys originating tra... (more)

Power for Union Pacific's Aurant Switch waits out the weekend for its next assignment. This is a bad location for tagging, so finding a pristine Baby Tunnel Motor here was a nice surprise.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief nears the end of its long run, now less than a railroad mile (and but a walking or flying block) from Los Angeles Union Station, as it passes the Metrolink power at Keller... (more)

As Mark Twain once famously said after the erroneous printing of his obituary, "Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated," so goes the same for Metrolink's one and only F40PH. ... (more)

Long called the World's Shortest Railroad (although now possibly usurped by the Horsehoe Curve funicular), Angels Flight runs up and down Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles.

A set of Bombardier Innovia Mark II heads west out of the subway tunnel towards Howard Beach.

A set of Bombardier Innovia Mark II cars pulls into the Howard Beach station ready to make another turn back to Kennedy Airport.

Along what was once the Long Island Railroad Rockaway Branch and is now the IND Rockaway Line, a pair of elderly Pullman Standard R46 train sets stop at the Howard Beach station on their respectiv... (more)

Long ago, the brilliant Duke Ellington played "Take the A Train," but he never told us which way. Here we see A trains going both ways at Broad Channel in Queens, while a dapper gentlema... (more)

A Far Rockaway bound set of venerable Pullman Standard R46 cars trundles over roadbed that once hosted Long Island Railroad PingPong cars, as it enters the second, shorter causeway, across Jamaica... (more)

The commuter rush is in full swing in Harlem as a Metro North "Genny" pulls a string of Shoreliners up to the 125th Street station.

The commuter rush begins in Harlem as a Metro North "Genny" pulls a string of Shoreliners up to the 125th Street station with Midtown's towers looming in the back.

A train bound for Croton Harmon pulls along the most southern platform at Spuyten Duyvil (which translates to Spite the Devil and is an upscale part of the Bronx). Above it, the Henry Hudson Bridg... (more)

With a set of MUs just out of frame behind the photographer, a Metro North train led by a New Haven painted Genny comes to a stop just short of the platform along the Harlem Shipping Channel, wher... (more)