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11/05/2026

The Easternmost Point

Directional signage on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) generally refers to two different destinations: "To New York" and "To Points East." On Monday, October 26, 2026, I found myself at the point where the rails go no further east, having made the nearly 120-mile trip from New York just a couple days prior. Trains arrived in Montauk in September of 1895, when the Brooklyn and Montauk Railroad completed their eastward extension from Amagansett. At Montauk Station - the namesake of the Montauk Branch - the rails and former low-level station platform end just shy of the pavement at Fort Pond Rd, with trains stopping at a modern high-level island platform further west. Generally only the summer Cannonball trains reach the 1942 station house, when the 12-car train is advanced to make its double stop at the 6-car platform.

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11/05/2026

Delaware-Lackawanna (DL) 6-axle MLW lashup (3685, 3602, 3643, 3000) climbing out of Scranton, PA. September 4, 2026.

11/05/2026

Seven Years Ago Today: Double Header at Portal

On November 5, 2019, two NJ Transit ALP-46 locomotives haul Northeast Corridor Line train 7840 over the Portal Bridge in the Meadowlands of New Jersey. The bridge no longer carries train traffic, as just last month all service changed to operate over the new Portal North Bridge, as well as a service reduction to complete the connection of tracks to the east and west of the bridge.

11/03/2026

Stainless Sunlight

Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern (RBMN) Budd RDC cars 9168 and 9166 are seen pulling north into Port Clinton Station, operating as train PVJT from Pottsville to Jim Thorpe. Coming through the junction from the north, the train had pulled just far enough south to clear the signal before changing ends to pull into the station. October 31, 2026.

11/02/2026

Reading & Northern F9A no. 270, F7B no. 275, and SD50-2 no. 5018 at Orchard Rd in Barnesville, PA. October 31, 2026.

11/02/2026

Reading & Northern SD50-2 no. 5018 leading train JTOS through Tamaqua, PA. October 31, 2026.

Due to a landslide blocking the track between Nesquehoning and Jim Thorpe, the scheduled train from Reading Outer Station could not complete its trip to Jim Thorpe. Instead, the power was run around the train at Nesquehoning and the train ran back to Reading approximately 4 hours earlier than planned. SD50M no. 5018 led F7B no. 275 and F9A no. 270 for the return trip.

11/02/2026

Bright Morning

The sun rising over the Appalachian mountains adds additional golden glow to an already colorful mountainside at Port Clinton station. In the nearby Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern locomotive yard, multiple EMD prime movers are quietly rumbling, only slightly breaking the quiet of the morning. October 31, 2026.

10/30/2026

NJ Transit Arrow III car 1366 with 6-car train at Highland Ave Station on the Morristown Line. October 22, 2026.

10/30/2026

NJ Transit 7016 and the Hoboken Aqua train at Highland Ave Station on the Morristown Line. October 22, 2026.

10/28/2026

Rolling on the River

CSX CW44AC no. 7503 is the lead unit on a southbound intermodal train, seen making its way out of the siding at Fort Montgomery, NY. Taken October 3, 2026.

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