Milwaukee Road's Newport Tower stood along the heavily trafficked Milwaukee Road & Burlington Northern joint mainlines just east (south) of Pig's Eye and Dayton Bluff yards in St. Paul. The Rock I... (more)

Metra 104, the Chicago unit, leads a outbound train into Bensenville, passing Tower B17.

Descending Lightly. CSX AC44CW no.s 465 and 487 are seen alone descending down the Hell Gate Bridge approach, crossing the Astoria Line at Astoria-Ditmars Blvd station. The two locomoti... (more)

Pushing through the Squall: ALP-45A #4532 nears the inactive Lincoln Tower as it brings up the rear of an equipment move during a snow squall on January 14, 2024.

The Tower protected the crossing of the Nickel Plate Clover Leaf and The Illinois Central Gruber Line.

M645 takes the scenic route from Birmingham to Waycross this evening as it passes through Opelika with 120 cars in tow. Standing next to the fast moving freight train is the iconic WofA concrete ... (more)

185110 passing the signal box at New Mills.

AMTK 447 waits to depart Union Station while an Amtrak Turbo Train arrives from St. Louis, passing under the Union Station tower that controls the trackage south of the terminal.

“Slow Off the MARC”
With Kawasaki cab car MARC 7852 on point, MARC 27, in push mode, powers MARC 525 southward, departing Perryville station. Despite the heavy snowfall, MARC operat... (more)

The NRFF is passing the tower in Penobscot.

One of the new kids on the block rounds the corner at A2 with a late morning deadhead.

158858 hurries past the station and signalbox at Whittlesea, with a Norwich to Liverpool service.

Chicago Transit Authority's Tower 18 controls movements on a number of Chicago CTA "El" lines (Green, Pink, Brown and Purple) in the Loop area. On the last evening of September, an Oran... (more)

"Heavy Snowfall at Hart Tower"

As snow falls on the afternoon of January 7th, 2024, north-facing CTrail (CTDX) GE P40BH 6706, leads northbound CTrail Hartford Line train 645... (more)

The rear DP's shove B935 east thru chatham, a day after we got a significant snowfall for the first time this season.