Disturbing The Peace | The silence of the chilly autumn dawn of Sunday, November 12, 2023 is broken by southbound intermodal train I180 charging up the famed grade at Rich Mountain, AR. Fog... (more)
"Metro North & the New Rochelle Toll Plaza"
Metro North Train 6339 heads west down the New Haven Line passing by the recently decommissioned New Rochelle Toll Plaza. The toll plaza is the ... (more)
A German ICE 3 trainset running as ICE 528 rips out of München Hauptbahnhof on its way to Dortmund Hbf. Two other ICE train varients sit below the mess of catenary that runs throughout the busy t... (more)
"M3As at the New Haven True Shop"
A pair of Metro North Budd M3As sits inside the old Truing Shop at New Haven, shortly after getting it's wheels cut. Metro North has two wheel t... (more)
My father and I made several trips to Sayre, PA during the last years of the Lehigh Valley. We always stayed at O'Brien's Inn in Waverly, NY, which I recall had a picture of LV 628s in the dining... (more)
This UIC Z1A pilot car is at the head of a daytime Intercity train, deriving from the transformation of 53 coaches of the same second class series with the addition of the cockpit that is carried ... (more)
"Torching Switches"
New York & Atlantic Railway's MoW crew torches some frozen switches in Fresh Pond Yard after the January 5th "bomb cyclone" storm covered several switches in huge snow ... (more)
A C&NW local rolls west past the C&NW passenger station at Eau Claire, WI. The railroad still used the station at this time for the freight agent, but in several years it would be torn down. At th... (more)