Double Blast! A southbound Virginia Railway Express (VRE) train is seen emerging from the portal of the 1st St Tunnel, headed to Broad Run on the Manassas Line. Leading the train is MPI... (more)

Lower Level. A WMATA Metrorail Blue Line train bound for Franconia-Springfield is seen arriving at Pentagon station, using 3000-series cars (Breda, 1984-1988). Pentagon station is one o... (more)

Amtrak Northeast Regional train 171 is roughly 460 miles into its nearly 500-mile journey from Boston, Massachusetts, to Manassas, Virginia, as it passes through Washington DC. AMTK P42DC ... (more)

Washington Union Station is one of the country’s first great union railroad terminals. Designed by renowned architect Daniel Burnham, the station opened on October 27, 1907 and was completed in ... (more)

A lot of old train stations (such as Los Angeles Union Station, Chicago Union Station and New York’s Grand Central Terminal), and even some new stations (such as New York’s Moynihan Train Hall... (more)

Virginia Railway Express train 331 departs Washington DC's L'Enfant station as it heads south out of Washington DC to Manassas, Virginia. VREX MP36PH-3C 50 is the power for this six-car co... (more)

The Washington Terminal painted SW1000R brings a coach back to the station to be placed on the outbound Palmetto.

An eclectic mix of MARC and Amtrak power runs to Washington Union Station on a cold and snowy January morning in DC.

The head end of a power move from Ivy City with Heritage Unit 130 leading meets the outbound 154 in heavy snowfall.

The 0800 Washington Terminal yard job takes a coach off the inbound Palmetto around the wye at Ivy City and back to Washington Union Station with SW1000R 794 on the shove in the morning snowfall. ... (more)

Still going strong, the Washington Terminal-assigned SW1 awaits its next call to duty at Union Station.

A Washington Metro Red Line train approaches Union Station as SW1001 569 and SW1 737 wait between assignments near K Tower.

AMTK 569, built as RDG 2602 is November of 1973, is seen running lite past some handovers of the steam era at the south end of Ivy City.

CSX auto train Q276 rounds the curve at F Tower in Washington DC with a four pack of GEs. Meanwhile, an Amtrak yard job heads from Ivy City to Washington Union Station on a yard track below.

While I was in college, I made frequent trips to visit my cousins in Maryland. If I couldn’t secure the use of one of my parents’ cars, I would take the rails, and I would make a day of the jo... (more)