"Brandt Power Unit at NYP" One of Amtak's Brandt Power Units sits on Track 11 at New York Pennsylvania Station with 2 loaded ballast hoppers in tow. Amtrak is in the process of r... (more)

On any weekday midday, LI City Yard is full of diesel equipment awaiting the PM rush. But on this the first day of Amtrak's State of Good Repair work at Penn Station, two MU trains join the mix.

As Amtrak P32AC-DM 711 lead train 239 on the curve approaching the MTA Metro-North Railroad Marble Hill Station, we see the Bronx VA Hospital and Target store on the background on 7/31/2017. This ... (more)

From the Bronx to Manhattan and back to the Bronx....then Manhattan. A geographical oddity in the maps of New York City, Marble Hill, Manhattan is in fact in New York County. Re-channeling of wate... (more)

Now for three of a kind! P32AC-DMs Amtrak 711 (Phase III) and Metro-North 228 (New Haven) and 204 (MNCW) sit on tracks 38-36 on the afternoon of August 2, 2017. The summer service diversions that ... (more)

As Amtrak 242 (P42DC 114 leading) heads down the Park Avenue Viaduct into Grand Central Terminal on Friday, August 4, 2017, we have some idea as to the intense volume of rush hour service that tra... (more)

Two of a kind! Amtrak 233 heads north/west from Grand Central Terminal on 8/1/2017. While the sight of P32AC-DM 711 (Phase III) leading from GCT is a rare opportunity to be captured this summer, w... (more)

Empire Service train #242 heads south along the Harlem River towards Grand Central Terminal.

I was a California boy, and I had seen stuff like this only in pictures. When Uncle Sam gave me an all expenses paid trip to the East Coast, it was like a whole different world. The GG-1's were ... (more)

NJT in the open air over A Interlocking, which is now enclosed and this locomotive is now retired.

Due to the "Summer of Hell" at New York's Penn Station, 3 inbound and 3 outbound Amtrak Empire Line trains will be using Metro-North's Grand Central Terminal. This was the first inbound ... (more)

Three of a kind ...but two are remanufactured AEM-7ACs and the one in the middle is a factory original - can you spot the differences? These engines are attached to their respective trains... (more)

This slab sided Budd car began life as a Coach that Amtrak chose to convert to a baggage car in the late 90s for the then-expanding mail and express business. This came at a time when Heritage ca... (more)

The Amtrak 241 is just about to leave New York, New York on 6/9/2017 as it heads north on the Empire Corridor with 710 (P32AC-DM, Phase III) leading at about 1930. This is one of those "summer onl... (more)

Amtrak 69 heads over the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge on the morning of 6/11/2017 with the George Washington Bridge in the background.