VIA 63 has VIA 6433 leading seven stainless steel cars as it passes Montreal's skyline soon after leaving Central Station.

Light power past Wellington Tower. For reasons unknown, VIA 6414 is running light power past Wellington Tower after leaving Montreal's Central Station. It is crossing the Lachine Canal the ... (more)

Pieces of the Past, Fragments of the Future

NS 8102 charges past HUNT tower at 4th Street in Huntingdon, PA. The tower, long closed, now serves as offices for the Huntingdon County... (more)

WC 731 leads a dogs breakfast of locomotives pulling a coal train past Cut-Off tower in Milwaukee, WI in October of 1988.

The Vandalia Railroad's lone engine, SW9 104, sits at the line's office in a former tower in Vandalia, Ill. The Vandalia operates three miles of ex-Illinois Central trackage. The tower guarded a d... (more)

Eastbound freight arriving in Portsmouth

Suburban train Retiro - José León Suárez

Lake Tower was on Milwaukee's south side and governed a small yard, crossovers, and passing siding on the Milwaukee Road. The tower was closed in the mid 1980's and was burned by vandals in 1989 a... (more)

Spring is late to arrive high on the mountain as brand new SD-60I 5630 from the Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona leads one of the daily procession of manifests up the mountain grade from Altoona... (more)

Quad Goodwin/ALCo branchliners 48149, 48124, 48116 and 48132 rumble up grade on approach to Harden with a pre-dawn empty grain shuttle bound for nearby Cunningar. 48149's headlight is illuminating... (more)

The tower at DAVIS interlocking, long abandoned, stands mute as Amtrak Acela Express train 2211 speeds southward towards its terminus in Washington, D.C.

With North America's largest interlocking tower in the background, N&W 1218 works its way south (railroad east) along the former Nickel Plate main on a passenger special. Tom Golden photo.

Reflected train and tower. Both VIA 63 and the abandoned Wellington Tower are reflected in the still waters of the Lachine Canal on a foggy morning.

A loaded Coal train comes into Grafton yard.

Amtrak 395 brings a northbound Hiawatha past the burned out remains of Lake Tower in Milwaukee, WI in June of 1989. The tower was out-of-service when vandals burned it.