A Clean House Is A Happy House. A previously overlooked photo from August 13, 2020 tells almost as much of the story as many others from that day that show people or trains. On that day, th... (more)

Meet Me At The Clock. The most popular spot to rendezvous in New York City is the clock on top of the information booth at MTA Metro-North Railroad's Grand Central Terminal. It was built by... (more)

Maintenance Underway. Track crews were hard at work on 12/11/2022 replacing switches south of Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station on the Lexington Avenue Line (4/5/6), as seen from one of... (more)

The World's Oldest Subway Tunnel And Its Advocate. Bob Diamond, a local Brooklyn resident, for years talked about finding the "lost" former Brooklyn and Jamaica/Long Island Rail R... (more)

Holidays In The Oculus. The $4 billion Oculus station house near the Freedom Tower, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, was opened on March 3, 2016. It serves as the World Tra... (more)

On the Afternoon of October 6th an Enola Yard Job picked a switch at the North End while shoving in resulting in the above mess. Piled up right under I 80, Crews started cleanup work with limited ... (more)

All is exceptionally quiet on CSX's ex-C&O coalfields, but a clear signal at the W.E. Coal River Siding indicates that will soon change as a 220-car coal train makes its way to the mainline at St.... (more)

With the 80th Clinchfield Santa Train complete (I'll hold off on saying "annual Santa Train" for now...), The "W. Thomas Rice" has been added back to the train, which is depart... (more)

SP MW 325 is one of five Maintenance of Way Flangers on a westbound manifest train pulling into Roseville yard.

Derailment cleanup crews have just switched on the floodlights at the Columbus Ave. overpass in Sandusky, Ohio, a couple hours after the first 17 cars on NS train 310 derailed while negotiating a ... (more)

Leaf rust stain on rarely used rail.

End of Track - the sign says it all! The once busy Alma Branch to the Sprouse Creek prep plant is now just a stub off the Pokey mainline and has been removed beyond the grade crossing ahead as nat... (more)

The red eastward facing signal illuminates the air as the headlights of train 306 comes into view, rounding the bend approaching Edmundston, New Brunswick.

Sunrise hits the 3,920 foot Salmon River Trestle. No train unfortunately, but even without it, it's still quite the site to see in colorful skies.

About 7:30am on a cold Super Bowl Sunday morning, a westbound U705 broke a couple rails east and west of Jesup on the CN Dubuque Sub. The signal maintainer came out and found a couple 2 inch break... (more)