An Acela races through Trenton at speed.

New Jersey Transit and Amtrak trains, both ready to head north to New York City (and on to Boston for the Amtrak) load at the Trenton train station.

SEPTA train to Philadelphia departs Trenton on a warm summer day. With all the Silverliner Vs temporarily out of service for repairs and older set of IVs is in charge this morning.

A long train of New Jersey Transit bilevel cars is shoved out of the station on its way to the layover yard in neighboring Pennsylvania.

A Northeast Regional races through Tacony with Center City Philly off in the distance as the sun finally breaks through after a rather cloudy morning's beginning.

30th Street Station is lit up for the Democratic Convention in town.

A train to Wilmington Delaware heads into the Suburban platforms of 30th Street Station.

The Norristown train pulls east out of the 30th Street Station Suburban platforms and is about to cross the Schuylkill River on its way into Center City.

A train to Chestnut Hill West approaches the Suburban platforms of 30th Street station on a hot but gorgeous summer day in Philadelphia.

An Amtrak Acela begins to pick up speed again after making the 30th Street Station stop for Philadelphia. Here it is passing through University City with the City of Brotherly Love's expanding sky... (more)

Amtrak's City Sprinter Veteran's Unit heads south and away from the Philadelphia skyline on a beautiful summer afternoon during the Democratic Convention. I feel pretty lucky. I've shot the NEC tw... (more)

This photo is mid-afternoon on a day without a cloud in the sky. What you are seeing is smoke from the Sand Fire, 40 miles away. Sand Fire smoke covered Santa Monica for most of the day leaving it... (more)

A BNSF AC4400CW leads a deadhead double set into Los Angeles Union Station. This train will take a platform and then be cut into two trains for their revenue outbound runs.

Because what you really need for commuter trains is the ability to pull huge amounts of tonnage at very low speeds without burning out the traction motors, a pair of BNSF AC4400CWs await their tru... (more)

An F59, F40 and 4-8-4 walk into a bar... Metrollink lined up the "old equipment" to display with their brand new F125. Wonder if the F59 and/or F40 will live on like the Northern.