While the Budd cars of yesteryear are being outmoded, these are their replacements. Delivered by Bombardier in 2004, the M7s play a crucial part in commuter operations on the Hudson and Harlem lin... (more)

The Budd M2s have played a crucial part in connecting two electric territories on the Northeast Corridor for the past 42 years. Connecting 3rd rail DC powered Grand Central Terminal with the Caten... (more)

The J and Z lines of the New York City Subway have always been given the hand me downs when it comes to equipment. Delivered in 1969 and 1970, the R42 subway cars are almost half a century old and... (more)

The mighty and architecturally influential Hell Gate Bridge, now approaching its 100th anniversary, was built to provide a strategic link between the PRR and the New Haven. Today, it is just as c... (more)

Waiting, yes, we are all waiting for the 9:01 PM Tottenville-St. George train to depart. While we are waiting, we have time to ponder the astounding fact that we are in the Deep South. That's righ... (more)

The LIRR's fleet of M7s bask in afternoon sunlight while the numerous double slip switches get a workout moving trains in and out of West Side Yard. This yard will be covered up to 11th Street wit... (more)

We are doing 8 knots, as Thomas J. Brown & Sons tugboat John P. Brown tows the Cross Harbor rail barge on the hip through New York Harbor from the 65th Street Yard float bridge to the now-demolish... (more)

New York Penn Station, what little of it is seen from above ground, sits beneath Madison Square Garden in the heart of the big apple.

Two Times Square Shuttle trains sits in the stub end terminal tracks. I just recently learned that the raison d'etre for this line (which parallels the last two stops of the Flushing Local line) i... (more)

A Flushing Local leaves Grand Central on its way out to Queens.

For nearly a decade I would see this view from the back of a taxi when running errands for my family's business in the City. Leave it to my friend and fellow railfan Dennis Livesey to show me how ... (more)

The brand new One World Trade Center has taken it's place in the ever-changing New York City skyline. At 1,776' it has grabbed the title of tallest building in New York City from the 1,250' Empire... (more)

Three levels down in the bowels of Grand Central Terminal in New York City, there is a huge barrel vaulted space that welcomes and discharges No. 7 trains. Clattering out of the East River Tunnel... (more)

A Metro North commuter train is seen on the Park Ave Viaduct heading inbound to Grand Central Terminal on snowy February night.

AMTK 602 Siemens ACS-64 was just being broken in at this time. There are not many shots of these locomotives broadside and only one or two in this paint.