A CTA L train passes overhead on an early Chicago morning. Even the streets are empty at this hour.

The Santa Fe Building, also known as Railway Exchange Building, is a 17-story office building in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District of the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illi... (more)

In the Greenbrier River Valley east of Hinton under a clear winter sky, the double track intermediate signal bridge at Riffe displays a clear signal for an approaching eastbound loaded coal drag.

Railroad archeology courtesy of Mother Nature. BNSF's former NP "Shortline" mainline into Duluth hangs high the day after record rainfall blew out a culvert (seen in the distance). The old pilings... (more)

About those scratches on my new F-150....sideswipe damage at Laural that also involved MRL SW1200 15. See photo 417389.

A pair of Southern bay window cabooses bringing up the rear of a westbound coal train at Bulls Gap (Kite), TN.

The American Orient Express luxury cruise train heads westbound through the Flatirons, into Tunnel 3 and the heart of the “Tunnel District” on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande route to the Moffat... (more)

Shortly after LTV announced it was closing its mine and pellet plant in northern Minnesota an employee spray painted "For Sale" on one of the ore cars. Unfortunately a sale would never come and 14... (more)

Before it closed one of the main jobs of the large former NP Como shops in St. Paul was caboose work. Here a pair of new cabooses (delivered earlier in 1980) appear to be having some modification ... (more)

Though it may be beat up from many years of dedicated service, Great Lakes Central plow 4502 rests just outside the Cadillac engine terminal before the morning call of the CNTN. Still sporting TSB... (more)

A Berkshire Scenic Railway trainman signals the head end with his lantern while setting up for the BSRM's first Night Photo Shoot in 2006. Canon EOS 20D, Canon 70-200mm f/4L

The gritty textures of a Canadian Pacific Railway switchlock on a small trackside structure at the grade crossing at Brisco, British Columbia, on the afternoon of July 17, 2011.

A freight car on a westbound CSX manifest freight hits the flange oiler in Becket, MA on the Boston Line. Canon EOS 20D, Canon 70-200mm f/4L

A classic "hotbox" on a loaded ore car that was caught by a detector. The train is stopped and the crew will place this quad on the set-out track near the Saginaw depot. Journal oil fires are just... (more)

Highball, Duplainville!: Amtrak No. 8, the Empire Builder, cruises by Duplainville Tower in July 1984, with Milwaukee Road Skytop Cedar Rapids carrying the markers. The tower stood guard over Milw... (more)