Fred Simon inspects a venerable GRS "2-A" semaphore in its last days of service on the former Northern Pacific between Spokane and Pasco, WA. Safetrans CTC signals are slowly marching westward. It... (more)

Over 100 years of train-order operations between Pasco and Spokane, Washington, on the former Northern Pacific are in their final days, and operator R. J. Keen is closing out the tradition, workin... (more)

A statue of a trackwalker is all that is left of the Southern Pacific Burbank Branch through the west side of Burbank. This branch once connected to the SP Coast Line at Chatsworth and Burbank Jun... (more)

By a cloudy and crispy day, the employees are working on a minor derailment in Farnham yard due to the snow accumulation in the switch.

A railroader gives a westbound grain train a careful roll by at Lytton.

Looks like someone's had a case of the Mondays!

Concrete ties await installation.

A red glow during the blue hour.

A light layer of clouds reflect the sodium vapor lights in the distance as the searchlight signals beam brightly. The non-standard signal arrangement is the result of a 2003 derailment. The base... (more)

Nearing the end of the blue hour, the clasic Santa Fe signals continue to stand tall.

One of the few remianing original Santa Fe Union Switch and Signal Searchlight Setups. The signals are standing like a sentenal on a clear stary night over the now BNSF trackage at Mojave.

Winter sunrise over the CPL's near Ottawa, Ohio

Inbound Comstock iron ore train arrives at Geneva Steel just after sunrise, running from Provo on Rio Grande trackage rights and trailing a Missouri Pacific caboose.

A solid train of Union Pacific's 1979-built ORE-100-3 series ore jennies make a real racket rolling southbound at 45 miles per hour en route to the Cedar City and Iron Mountain branches for loadin... (more)

And away she goes. . . 74 little ore jennies separate the exhaust smudge of the locomotives from CA-10 caboose 25743 bringing up the rear of an empty Geneva-Comstock ore empty heading for the mine... (more)