Amtrak's train #30, the Capitol Limited, is between station stops at Waterloo, IN, (25 minutes back) and the next stop at Toledo, OH (1 hour-10 ahead). Here the train passes ex-NYC signals at the ... (more)

The marker of train 312 flashes away by the position light at MP 9 on the Marion Branch under an almost full moon. The north end of the Marion Branch is still littered with position lights between... (more)

The setting sun glints off of K010's consist as it rolls through the tiny town of Chittenango and under the endangered NYC-era signal bridge. K010 has created a stop indication over track 2, and ... (more)

MRL's night gas local heads off into the sunset.

A CSX employee starts inspection on a CSX GEVO on a hot & humid afternoon in Selkirk.

Towers to different eras
Sitting forlornly amongst the growing soybeans of a farmer’s field is a concrete coaling tower on the abandoned Chicago and North Western “Ridgerunner Lineâ... (more)

Southbound Q501 streaks under the B&O signal bridge at South Deshler around 01:00 on Independence Day 2013.

The sun sets on the distant city of Winona, Minnesota as BNSF oil loads sprint down the Mississippi River.

As Positive Train Control (PTC) legislature gets closer in 2015, more and more signals are being replaced with a standard newer signal. Search light signals like this intermediate signal east of G... (more)

The beautiful summer sun begins to slowly set over Norfolk Southern's busy Lafayette District at a location west of Tolono, IL known as "Dawn." A classic Wabash searchlight signal still ... (more)

A bull elk crosses Canadian National’s main line at the east end of the Snaring River Bridge at Henry House, Alberta, on July 19, 2011.

A former CNW plow sits in the weeds outside the RAILROAD MEMORIES MUSEUM in Spooner, WI. The museum is housed in the former Chicago & Northwestern Railway depot and has been transformed into a m... (more)

Having crossed into Minnesota from Wisconsin via the double deck Oliver Bridge over the St. Louis river in the background, a lengthy CN freight with pusher help attached waits for a CN freight to ... (more)