An early Christmas Gift - Amtrak 40th Anniversary heritage unit no.822 leads VIA 97 (Amtrak 64) out of Union on a snowy Christmas Eve day morning.
The Midtown and Downtown skylines of Atlanta can be seen in this view overlooking Norfolk Southern's Inman Yard in Atlanta, GA. Intermodal train 282, being led by the Lackawanna heritage unit, wi... (more)
Prudential Center towers in the background as the sun peaks out allowing me to photograph trains leaving Boston after spending the day at Campus Technology Expo.
The Lake Shore Limited leaves the Windy City behind as it departs 20 minutes late for New York.
LIRR's No. 423 is at walking speed out of the Long Island City, Queens, New York Passenger Yard on it's way to pick up it's load of commuters at the railroads Hunterspoint Avenue station about 200... (more)
An East LA bound train glides away from downtown Los Angeles, with the skyscrapers behind it and City Hall to the right.
The number 7 subway escapes Manhattan with a load of commuters leaving the Empire State, the Chrysler and the Citibank buildings behind.
After a long day, commuters can't wait to get home as the MBTA heads west to Worcester. This is my 100th picture on Railpictures.net and as such I wanted it to be shot in MA, where I really go... (more)
The 176 leads a Hiawatha out of the windy city among a scenic array of sky scrapers.
One of the newer photo locations in the Twin Cities thanks to a still being built overpass over the tracks.
Philadelphia!
After years of shooting here, I finally was able to get back to get back to see the scene now that Penn Park (to the left) had been completed. Only a year ago, there... (more)
This color scheme is still a bit odd to me. I wonder what they'd look like with a more normal Metra scheme?
Museum of the American Railroads are moving the ATSF F3 engine instead of the UP Steamer Big Boy. UP cancelled the Big Boy move at the last minute.
Conrails last days A full 13 years after the merger the days of Big Blue are over.