PRR GG1s and B1s, Queens, 1964. Sunnyside Yard was (and still is) the coach yard serving Manhattan's Penn Station. That day's quest was the legendary DD1 side-rod electric, which didn't seem to... (more)

NJT beneath the streets of Manhattan.

The New York City Transit Museum operated their "Nostalgic Shoppers Special Train" on Sundays during December 2015, along the Sixth Avenue line, between 2nd Avenue In Manhattan and Queens Plaza in... (more)

The New York City Transit Museum operated their "Nostalgic Shoppers Special Train" on Sundays during December 2015, along the Sixth Avenue line, between 2nd Avenue and Queens Plaza stati... (more)

Heavenly Hell Gate.

Constructed from 1912 to 1916, New York's Hell Gate Bridge is, one hundred years later, still arguably the most beautiful railroad bridge in America. The entire b... (more)

Departing the Broadway Station on the old Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT) Astoria Line is a northbound N Broadway Express train consisting of Alstom R160B cars, heading downg... (more)

New York City's subways are not always underground, as exemplified by an elevated section of the N Line near the line's Queensboro Plaza station in Long Island City. The N Line operates between C... (more)

A Long Island train of MU cars heads past Sunnyside Yard in Long Island City, New York, NY, on January 28th, 2016.

People are scrambling from a Q train to the No 7 at Queensboro Plaza during snowstorm Jonas, the 2nd biggest snowfall in NYC's history. (I wonder what the guy with the bike was thinking about toda... (more)

Snow storm Jonas was New York City's second biggest snow fall ever recorded. In spite of that, Amtrak kept it's NYC-Albany Empire Service going. Here 713 is slowly pulling west in Sunnyside Yard a... (more)

I have read the tales of Richard Steinheimer in the mountains, chasing elusive trains in unbearable weather. Well, I had some adventure today, even if it was in Queens, New York, where the only ... (more)

I venture that most people who use this Long Island Railroad car on a daily work commute basis liken it to a jail cell rather than a limousine. In reality, what seems a prosaic piece of railroad e... (more)

A Manhattan-bound N train from Ditmars Boulevard in Queens has left 30th Avenue station behind and is about to hit the short grade up to its next stop at Broadway. The elevated approach of Amtrak'... (more)

A Manhattan-bound No.2 Seventh Avenue Express train from Wakefield - 241st Street, arriving at West Farms Square - East Tremont Avenue station in the Bronx.

A Manhattan-bound No.5 Lexington Avenue Express train from Eastchester Dyre Avenue, arriving at West Farms Square - East Tremont Avenue station in the Bronx.