The Right Way For The Friday Getaway. MTA Metro-North Railroad Train 943 was led by MNCW 211 (40th Anniversary, P32AC-DM) on Friday, September 6, 2024, see passing Lakeview Avenue in Valhal... (more)

Wabtec R-255 Debuts On The Vak Train. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) NYCT Subway's NEU Railways/SOCOFER Vaktrak train travels at 2-8 mph collecting debris from the track. Altho... (more)

Wabtec R-255 Debuts On The Vak Train. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) NYCT Subway's NEU Railways/SOCOFER Vaktrak train travels at 2-8 mph collecting debris from the track. Altho... (more)

The First R-32. After being sidelined with mechanical issues for more than a decade, MTA NYCT Subway R-32s 3350 and 3351 (1964, Budd) were brought to the shop for repair. These cars were th... (more)

Nickel Plate Roads. While the 2024 RailFest weekend at Steamtown featured a special Nickel Plate Road reunion, so did 2015. On September 5, 2015, long term Steamtown resident Nickel Plate R... (more)

Amtrak Phase III At Elizabeth. The surprise announcement of the Amtrak collaboration with Dovetail Games/Train Sim World 2 that resulted in Amtrak ACS-64 662 being "wrapped" in P... (more)

Moonlight Railroading. An unusual New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railway Sunday WS-X operated on September 4, 2022, with NYSW 3618 (SD45-2, née-BN 6500, SD45, 5/1971) leading. Seen he... (more)

The First Amtrak Train To Penn Station. On September 3, 2018, summer construction on the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge over the Harlem River had come to an end and the first Amtrak train of the sea... (more)

Swift Stream To The Hudson River. On September 1, 2024, the former New York Central Railroad "Swift Stream" (RPCX 800460) held the markers on Amtrak Train 48 (Lake Shore Limited) ... (more)

The Cannonball Is Leaving. The MTA Long Island Rail Road's "Cannonball" was still numbered Train 2798 on September 2, 2011 when it was getting ready to depart the Hunterspoint Avenue Statio... (more)

Employee Appreciation On Labor Day. The final of the five MTA Metro-North Railroad 40th Anniversary wrap features an intricate design that combines thousand of photos of current and retire... (more)

Parked In Pueblo. Former Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe 2912 (4-8-4, "Northern", Baldwin, 1944) was retired and donated to the City of Pueblo in 1959 with a little over 900,000 miles travel... (more)

From Down Under to Oregon. Sydney, Australia O-Class car 1187 (Meadowbank Manufacturing Company, 1912) came to the Oregon Electric Railway Museum in 1959. On August 31, 2008, it was the ope... (more)

Signal That Train Has Parted. During the early morning hours of Saturday, August 31, 2024, West Chester Railroad WCRL 4230 (née-CP 4230, C424, MLW, 5/1965), departed the railroad's propert... (more)

Sun Setting East Side Amtrak Service. During the summer of 2018, all Amtrak Empire service that was operated to New York City originated and terminated from Grand Central Terminal due to tr... (more)