A New Jersey Transit train with Metro North power has just departed the Netcong, N.J., station on its way to Hackettstown on NJT's Morris & Essex line. A limited number of trains operate on these ... (more)

An antique fire truck makes an appearance during a night photography event at the Connecticut Trolley Museum.

Traversing former Jersey Central rails, a Winchester & Western freight passes the Hanson sand facility. The vast sand resources of deep southern New Jersey at one time supported a thriving glass i... (more)

Traversing former Jersey Central rails, a Winchester & Western freight passes the Hanson sand facility. The vast sand resources of deep southern New Jersey at one time supported a thriving glass i... (more)

A conductor waves to a pretty lass in the observation car Hickory Creek as a rare jade-green E8 sits on an adjacent track. This scene was part of the annual night photography event hosted by the U... (more)

The crew goes over a few last minute details before GG-1 No. 4879 couples onto its train. This scene was part of the annual night photography event hosted by the United Railroad Historical Society... (more)

A northbound Norfolk Southern train crosses Hawksbill Creek as it approaches downtown Luray, Va. Some 60 years earlier, O. Winston Link created a night photo at this same bridge, although he did i... (more)

Battling the Blue Ridge grade, Norfolk & Western No. 611 passes the color position light signals as it works its old home turf between Roanoke and Lynchburg, Va.

Norfolk & Western No. 611 splits the classic color position light signals at Montvale as it heads from Roanoke to Lynchburg. The clouds parted briefly 20 seconds before the train's arrival here.

Norfolk & Western No. 611 sees no need to stop for coal at the tower at Vicker, Va.

Nate Haydt poses as a brakeman on Allentown & Auburn No. 206 as it pauses in front of the depot at Kutztown, Pa., on the locomotive's debut run in ALLN paint.

An eastbound train rolls through the Pennsylvania farm land on former Reading trackage.

Power from New England Central sits on a Connecticut Southern train at the latter's yard just outside of downtown Hartford.

Is it too early to hope for fall? The leaves are showing just a hint of changing as the train from Rutland works the Pan Am interchange at North Bennington.

A passenger who has been waiting for years for his train to arrive checks his watch on the platform of the North Bennington, Vt., station. Sadly for him, the arriving freight from Rutland is not h... (more)