The Jewel Of Joliet. On the evening of Wednesday, June 16, 2021, Iowa Interstate Railroad's BICB (Blue Island, Illinois-Council Bluffs, Iowa) crosses the diamond in Joliet, Illinois. IAIS 518 (GE ... (more)

At 0530, KCS train M-NSJA performs a couple of switching moves before heading west to Jackson, MS.

HA1 switches in Harrington with a couple MP15s and a geep for power.

A southbound Union Pacific coal train clatters across the Conrail crossing guarded by Pence Tower at Momence, Illinois, on September 8, 1990. This tower formerly guarded the crossing of New York C... (more)

The Norfolk & Western 611's home railroad, the N&W was host to a very unique kind of signal known as the Color Position Light signal. They were the mainstay of home-N&W territories for many years,... (more)

NJT 4120 rolls into the Booton Line platform in Denville past the Denville interlocking tower, which once controlled the junction between the Montclair-Boonton and Morris & Essex lines.

The Boston & Albany line does seem special sometimes... we were lucky(?) to get the gorgeous new F40's in the B&O paint scheme...but capped with some clean GEVO's out of Selkirk. Still, it's spec... (more)

A former Frisco GP40-2 (now a GP40-3) is on the point of KCS' Macon Local as it waits for its turn to come into the KCS yard to do some switching moves before going back to Artesia, MS.

Freshly repainted Rock Island #2127 sits outside the yard office in Sumner, MS during a light rain fall. Yes, the unit is now classified as a C42-9. Rock Island made some software and horsepower u... (more)

An Alabama Southern freight with CN power rolls past the former M&O Depot in Northport, AL. The depot houses a nice model train display and also has a former ICG caboose on display behind it.

A quartet of Chessie System locomotives are sitting at RH Tower located in Cincinnati, OH, December 1977. John E. Troxler collection, photographer unknown.

The 214 job gets headroom at Hobart Tower behind a GP60M leader.

"The Feds Come to WC"

CNW's St. Francis Tower was a busy place at one time. It controlled the junction between the passenger mainline to downtown Milwaukee and the freight bypass to Butler. It also controlled the junct... (more)

The northbound NRFF, with SD50-2 #5019 making its first revenue run after sitting on display around the system, passes the tower at Penobscot.