The 2nd story of Grasselli Tower is placed on the 1st story on a beautiful May morning in North Judson, IN on the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum property. More info about Grasselli Tower here: ht... (more)

Pennsy Heritage. A number of Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) Position Light signals are seen at Forest Hills Station on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). The LIRR was once owned by the PRR,... (more)

Planned Cuts. During a scheduled outage at Amtrak's New York Penn Station on January 10, 2018, a track worker cuts a section of rail on Track 15 that will be removed as the entire roadbed w... (more)

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)