This old Geep works the elevator at Gibbon NE.

MOW can be a lonely job, often working with a lookout this welder concentrates on his work.

Crossbucks and a golden sunset

Sperry handheld rail defect detector.

MOW stand back as the Thermit Weld fires up to make the weld at around 2,000 degrees.

MOW workers use plain old fashioned elbow grease and high tech sighting to align the diamonds.

Following the departure of the southbound Silver Star, the platform lights of the Cary Amtrak station illuminate the CSX rails which will now lie dormant until morning.

Ammonoosuc MWCR No.2 creates her share of what the hikers call "cog smog." The thing is, she has been doing so since, (I believe) the 1880's!

Waiting to be unloaded

Two lines of locomotives in the CSX yard at Cumberland. It was erie this Memorial Day at the shop and yard..no trains, and not one locomotive was idling, total quiet, the first time I've ever seen... (more)

At sunrise in Cleveland, Ohio, the first-trick bridge tender starts his shift on Norfolk Southern's former Nickel Plate Road drawbridge over the Cuyahoga River. In the next eight hours, this opera... (more)

Grain Train in the Sky! 70 former ATSF and BN hopper cars rest on stilts at the Muleshoe Pea and Bean Company along the BNSF Slaton Subdivision.

A westbound Green line train, in the middle of a nonstop run of over a mile between Clinton and Ashland stations, seems to be fleeing from the downtown buildings ablaze at sunset.

Sunsets are always special and so is this one as two Pink line trains meet at Ashland AV over Lake Street. A volcano eruption half way round the globe had heightened the colors in a shot only ava... (more)

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