As his helper watches and shields his eyes from the bright flame, a welder repairs the switch points on the west switch of East Portal siding in front of the imposing edifice of the Moffat Tunnel.... (more)

Dusk has arrived as BNSF's Denver to Pueblo, Colorado manifest rolls on through the northern part of Colorado Springs just after sunset on December 06, 2015.

Finally the rain stops and I'm able to take some night shots... CSX train W081-01 sits and illuminates the southend "Darth Vader" color light signals, as CSX train Q102-01 slowly takes ... (more)

Heading south towards Tillsonburg, the crew on the snow plow encounters their first small drift and make quick work at speed.

Between assignments, Jersey Central kept Lehigh & New England locomotives and cabooses at the CNJ Bethlehem PA station. Also there was this gem of a wood-sheathed snowplow, L&NE #353.

Jersey Central's tower and main line sit abandoned at Nesquehoning Junction, located near Jim Thorpe, PA. Allentown- Scranton traffic had been rerouted to the Lehigh Valley line between Lehig... (more)

The rain continues as a Metra train from Elburn is seen coming into the La Fox, Illinois station along Union Pacific's Geneva Subdivision on June 20, 2015.

After a Union Pacific track gang replaced the frog at West Mounds, Utah, on May 11, 2006, welders move in and use a thermite weld on the rail joints. A one-time-use form is attached to the rails s... (more)

A Roger Puta photograph

A colorful Super Chief drumhead is displayed on the rear of Budd-built stainless steel sleeper-lounge-observation car “Navajo” built in 1937 for Santa Fe’s famous Super Chief. The car is now... (more)

Photo by Roger Puta.

Looking straight up at a small portion of Union Pacific’s massive bridge across the Snake River at Joso, Washington, on September 21, 2015.

There are a few neat old signals still left on the NS Southern Tier route. Here at Gang Mills, the east end of the yard at Painted Post, there are style G signals on a bracket signal mast. Alot of... (more)

"FLY BY NIGHT"
Norfolk Southern Local V88 (Shenandoah to Front Royal, VA) approaches the Summit bracket mast N&W CPL signals from behind the photographer who uses the light f... (more)

"MOONRISE OVER VAUGHN"
Giving a northbound train a clear indication, the Norfolk and Western single mast color position signal near Kimball, VA in the Shenandoah Valley on No... (more)