If you have to go to a subway platform 93 feet (28 m) below ground, this is a pretty cool way to get there.

The No. 4 comes into 14th Street Union Square while commuters get ready to load. The intensity here in the low ceiling station, on the oldest (1904) part of the New York City subway system, is int... (more)

A conductor checks his train after the all aboard at Temple University station during the height of the evening rush.

The fabled No 7 train does its job in Queens under the gaze of One World Trade Center in Manhattan.

Two No. 7 trains, going in opposite directions, are flying over Queensboro Plaza and Queens Boulevard. Above are the pointy spires of architect Gustav Lindenthal's 1909 Queensboro Bridge. I gues... (more)

For several years after the Erie-Lackawanna was absorbed into Conrail, the classic Lackawanna electric service into Hoboken continued on. Here, a Sunday local heads to Hoboken on a bright fall da... (more)

People are scrambling from a Q train to the No 7 at Queensboro Plaza during snowstorm Jonas, the 2nd biggest snowfall in NYC's history. (I wonder what the guy with the bike was thinking about toda... (more)

I have read the tales of Richard Steinheimer in the mountains, chasing elusive trains in unbearable weather. Well, I had some adventure today, even if it was in Queens, New York, where the only ... (more)

I venture that most people who use this Long Island Railroad car on a daily work commute basis liken it to a jail cell rather than a limousine. In reality, what seems a prosaic piece of railroad e... (more)

Deep in the depths of Grand Central Terminal you have a choice of two subway lines. This is the No 7 station and it is one of the few that has a barrel ceiling. During renovations about 15 years a... (more)

An MTA Vortex... "You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. ... (more)

A set of Metro North MUs kick up snow as they pass the Mamaroneck station.

The 7:15 Metro-North Railroad Harlem Division train to White Plains is stopping at 125th St Station during a nor’easter snow storm. The suburbanites are escaping the city because of an expected ... (more)

The suburbanites are escaping Snowmageddon New York 2015! A huge storm is predicted and here you see the start of the snow at Metro-North's 125th St. Station, New York. In the first ten minutes I ... (more)