I wonder how many of today's rail fanners have seen a real semaphore?

In the early morning, a eastbound mixed freight slowly creeps past the former Rock Island Depot into IAIS's Iowa City yard.

Westbound Montana Rail Link LM (Laurel to Missoula manifest freight) has F45 No. 391 on the point, and is traversing Winston Hill, east of Helena, Montana, late on the afternoon of September 11, 1... (more)

Nevada Northern’s Currie depot sits forlorn and unused as a local dog inspects the weed covered main line of the NNRY, waiting for a train that will seemingly never come on February 6, 2006.

Milwaukee Road's Virocqua Patrol leaves the Lacrosse,WI. Yard headed east for Sparta,WI.. The local will do way work all along the mainline and at Sparta it will run around its train and head sout... (more)

After leaving Superior, WI and with work to do in Carlton, MN and Cloquet, MN, the Grand Rapids local arrives at it's namesake destination with cars for the Blandin paper plant, the towns biggest ... (more)

A pair of RS-18s leaves Rockingham with a van hop heading west.

Splitting the former Northern Pacific semaphore signals at the east end of Byron siding, the last westbound Yakima Turn is headed to is namesake town. A few days after this photo was taken this ma... (more)

The Montana Rail Link hauls BNSF's Memphis, TN - South Seattle, WA stack train through a pair of Northern Pacific upper quadrant semaphores west of Spring Gulch, Montana.

SP 2472 splits the inactive semaphores coming into the Sunol depot on its first run in 2013.

Oldie-meeting in the station Kidderminster, right the Class 42. See also #430179

It may be highly improbable to believe that the Great Western Railway's 'Cornish Riviera' train ever ran through snow in March - well here's the proof. All stuff and nonsense of course, but this i... (more)

In crisp morning light, Clover Valley 2-6-6-2T #4 splits the semaphores as it enters Sunol to pick up passengers for the Post-Winterail photo charter.

Welded rails sing ahead of the B39/B30-7A(B) leading westbound MRL train #91, crossing the Pack River Fill on Lake Pend Oreille and about to split a pair of GRS 2(a) semaphores. In less than 10 mi... (more)

After significant wet snow accumulations piled up in the Green Mountains this week, Vermont Rail System dispatched a Thursday plow extra out of Bellows Falls, Vermont with the LLPX GP38-2 2334 pus... (more)