Presumably for MOW safety reasons, each main is labeled for easy identification.

The 2012 "Super Moon" silhouettes the intermediate C&O bridge at Longley OH in the final hour of Cinco de Mayo.

A well worn EJ&E key in an open Keline lock rests on a well worn switch stand

The cog wheel railway in Budapest was opened in 1874, and was built to Riggenbach's cog-wheel system. The standard gauge single track railway is 3.7km and rises over 325 metres. The terminal point... (more)

The "Super Moon" hides behind a mass of clouds passing over the C&O cantilever at the "Eighty-eight Crossovers."

Special photo train approaching station Polomka.

A top view of "Rail Burn" with the added reflection from a sunny blue sky

Hand driven railroad spikes show their age along the BNSF Front Range Subdivision in Longmont, CO at MP 41.35.

Searchlight signals are on their way out in alot of places due to the mandated PTC system scheduled to be in place by 2015. Here a pair of searchlights stair at its towering replacement signals th... (more)

Searchlight signals are on their way out in alot of places due to the mandated PTC system scheduled to be in place by 2015. Here a pair of searchlights stand guard at CP 4475, McPherson, as a few ... (more)

The sun sets over the eastern Mojave Desert at Cadiz as you look to the west and see how much the tracks go up and down all the way to Amboy and Siberia.

A man and his dog take a leisurely walk down the tracks on a nice spring afternoon while in the distance the U.P. local switches a small yard on Superior's east side of town.

The Bombardier LRC Demonstrator and an LRC coach sit outside the Sarnia, ON station ready to return west to Toronto, ON.

At East Baring the night sky givens away to a meet of hotshot trains. New and old signals, east and westbound trains, and on and off rain showers may for a nice evening.

This was the north portal of the 520 foot tunnel the DW&P railroad constructed at M.P. 7.4 through Ely's Peak in far west Duluth as part of their Hill Line which took them into and out of downtow... (more)