Amtrak Service train 237, heading north, through the Marble Hill section of Manhattan.

Through the Cut at Marble Hill: P32AC-DM #704 emerges through the cut at Marble Hill with Grand Central-bound Empire Service Train #280.

A Little Beaten and Off the Usual Path: P32AC-DM #705 is seen sporting a new escape hatch in its nose, while otherwise looking a little worn as it passes through the Marble Hill section of ... (more)

The Early Bird Gets the Adirondack: MARC II Cab Car #7753 leads Train 69, the Adirondack, towards Metro-North's Harlem-125th Street Station early on Saturday morning, June 2, 2018, as a bir... (more)

This is New York City? Amtrak Train 252 was the second southbound Empire Service train to destination at MTA Metro-North Railroad Grand Central Terminal on Saturday, May 26, 2018. P32AC-DM 708 (Ph... (more)

They’re baaack! The first revenue Amtrak train of the year to make the left turn at Spuyten Duyvil/CP12 was Train 250 with P32AC-DM 704 in the lead (Phase III, Empire) on Saturday, May 26... (more)

First in, first out. 704 (P32AC-DM, Phase III) would be the first engine to arrive and so was also the first to depart MTA Metro-North Railroad Grand Central Terminal with an Amtrak train as 281 h... (more)

A warm orange light fills the New York sky as an eastbound 7 local train approaches the 40th Street station in Queens, NY on May 20th, 2018.

In 1969 Penn Central still originated and terminated several freights a day in the ex-NYC yards along Manhattan's West Side freight line. As the summer morning sun burned off the night's Hudson Ri... (more)

Penn Central train 62 between Chicago and New York was the nameless successor to the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited and the ancestor of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited. On a hazy summer ... (more)

At dawn on a winter morning, my camera catches the spark from an electrical third rail shoe, marking the passage of an early morning A train running from Far Rockaway to Manhattan, as it crosses t... (more)

There is plenty of New York City history in this photograph! The dome of the landmark former Williamsburg Savings Bank Building (1875), together with the towers of the Williamsburg Bridge (1903), ... (more)

last april morning snowfall,last for LIRR Budd M3's ??

At home in the Manhattan cavern for which its dual-power capability was designed, Amtrak FL9 486 prepares to lead the westbound Lake Shore Limited out of town.

The No. 4 comes into 14th Street Union Square while commuters get ready to load. The intensity here in the low ceiling station, on the oldest (1904) part of the New York City subway system, is int... (more)