At dawn on a winter morning, my camera catches the spark from an electrical third rail shoe, marking the passage of an early morning A train running from Far Rockaway to Manhattan, as it crosses t... (more)

There is plenty of New York City history in this photograph! The dome of the landmark former Williamsburg Savings Bank Building (1875), together with the towers of the Williamsburg Bridge (1903), ... (more)

last april morning snowfall,last for LIRR Budd M3's ??

At home in the Manhattan cavern for which its dual-power capability was designed, Amtrak FL9 486 prepares to lead the westbound Lake Shore Limited out of town.

The No. 4 comes into 14th Street Union Square while commuters get ready to load. The intensity here in the low ceiling station, on the oldest (1904) part of the New York City subway system, is int... (more)

An eastbound express and westbound local 7 train meet near 40th Street Station in Queens just after sunset on a cold April evening.

"Smoking up GCT" Smoke lingers in the air as Metro North GP35r 105 tows a troubled diesel set out of Grand Central Terminal towards Croton for repairs.

"Amtrak Visits Marble Hill"

The magic of other times....

"TGC4 at Brooklyn Bridge" New York City Transit's Track Geometry Car (TGC) waits to be lined up for the loop at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station. The TGC roams the NYCT system i... (more)

Unusual snowfall for this year season.

Sunrise on a cool spring morning brings a golden glow to the view from Smith-9th Street in Brooklyn, across the rooftops of Carroll Gardens, to the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan rising in the bac... (more)

In the late 1960s/early 70s, Brooklyn's Bush Terminal Railroad was known as the home of some of GE's first diesels, a group of seven 60-ton, 300hp mini-hood units built in 1931 that turned out to ... (more)