Work was underway to build a city block atop of the railroad in Manhattan as part of the Manhattan West project. This shot is impossible today as the area is now completely covered over.
Evening Acela through Port Chester.
The departure board at New York Penn Station is looked at by tens of thousands of eye balls each day.
ACELA, the fastest train in America flies over a lowly New York City subway N train at Ditmars Station in Astoria Queens. Lowly it is until you remember the N train and it's kin carry 5 million pe... (more)
Amtrak's train 198 "The Benjamin Franklin" is dwarfed by the drawbridge towers and the surrounding apartment buildings, as it crosses the Pelham Bay, eastbound to Boston behind an AEM-7.
An Acela train on it's way to New York City, passing through the Metro North station at Harrison, N.Y.
An Amtrak AEM-7 bustles through Harrison on a bright September morning.
Regional service train #161 tears through the straight tangent of Mamaroneck NY on its way to New York City and Washington DC. The AEM7 was orginally called the Swedish Meatball due to its Swedis... (more)
The G can handle this train with ease!
"The Champion", during the brief period when Amtrak ran Florida service through to Boston
Amtrak GG-1 #906 enters Sunnyside Yard (Long Island) with train in tow in this 1975 view. For more of John's classic shots from N.Y. see the Sept. '06 Railfan & Railroad.
