Interior of Armstrong lever equipped Z Tower.

Night shift at Amtrak's K Tower.

Santa and guests will travel in clean accommodations on Saturday, Nov. 23 in the 71st running of the Santa Train

Sections of the temporary panel track used to move the 4014 closer to the mainline are seen being disassembled here in preparation for re-assembly at the rear of the locomotive. After many hours ... (more)

Man And Machine A crew member of CNJ 113 uses the time on display to fix a minor issue found during the run.

NCRY 4-4-0 #17 gets some tender loving care in the form of oil. The fireman on this trip tops off the oil while many riders admire the locomotive

Friendly CSX Tower operator Allen Brougham throws the levers in Miller Tower in Cherry Run, WV shortly before it closed in 2000.

With a mode of conveyance seemingly quaint in contemporary railroading, a Rio Grande track patrolman awaits train 664's passage before proceeding on the Tintic Branch to Springville. D&RGW's trust... (more)

Max Medlin prepares for another run-by as the photo line gathers.

At the WW&F Railway Museum, the "old ways" of doing things are always preferred. Here, volunteers JB Smith, Dana Deering, and Stewart Rhine, work as a team to bore a 3/4" hole using a manual Armst... (more)

The tail end of CSX 4759 can be seen protruding from the deep ditch it ended up in after colliding with the Q641 on the morning of June27, 2013. Workers use a bit of good old fashion muscle power ... (more)

The Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad Crew in the cab of BSV 8419. From left to right: Max Wipperman, Spencer Vaughn, and Joseph Magee.

Rolling stock is useless unless we have a solid foundation, and good track to run it on. A Norfolk Southern Maintenance of Way welder re-conditions a frog, while his spotter keeps watch on a sout... (more)

The crew that operated Soo Line 2719 pose for a portrait at the end of the day at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, MN.

Cooling off the roadbed after a heavy grind...