BNSF 8178 flies through the heart of Kansas City

Amtrak's eastbound Pennsylvanian descends Slope, slowly passing ALTO Tower preparing to make its Altoona station stop.

Spanning the Passaic River just west of Amtrak's Newark Penn Station, these massive twin vertical lift bridges were built by the Pennsylvania Railroad between the years of 1935 & 1937 and can be s... (more)

NJ Transit's Railmen for Children train barrels through Denville Station on the former DL&W Montclair-Boonton Line.

Conrail EMD SD45-2 "helper" approaches long gone MO interlocking tower and will continue East back to Altoona for another assignment.

NS C Line local, G67 is southbound on the former Central of Georgia Griffin to Cedartown main at Newnan, Georgia while crossing CSX's A&WP/WofA Subdivision. The lone SD40-2 is dragging three load... (more)

First Snow in Metuchen: The NJ Transit Pennsylvania Railroad Heritage ALP-46A shoves Northeast Corridor Line Train 3937 past Metuchen Station and the PRR-built Lincoln Tower as snow falls ... (more)

The Canadian version of CP's Holiday Train is making its first stop of the year at Montreal West Station. The power is parked near the Montreal West tower, which controlled all movements through t... (more)

Randy Knaub is getting the shot of another ubiquitous Chicago and North Western commuter train about to hit the MILW diamonds at Mayfair in 1976.

The "low-level set" on the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner route pulls out of Los Angeles as train 1572 with NPCU 90278 (former F40PH 278) taking up the markers. Terminal Tower is on the right.

CNW's CK Tower in Winona, MN in July of 1987. This tower guarded the CNW/MILW (SOO) crossing and was taken out of service in 1989. It was torn down soon thereafter.

IBCX 813 takes a cut of empties for Co Alliance at Malden by Wade Tower.

A former Southern high hood GP38-2 leads a cut of loads from Malden by whats left of Wade Tower.

Photographed from the eastbound Broadway Limited, this is Thorn Block Station at MP35 west of Philadelphia on the former Pennsylvania Railroad mainline. Thorn was an example of the importance PRR ... (more)

On a humid July morning, CSX crews work on the unfortunate removal of IU Tower in Downtown Indianapolis. Built in the 1930's as part of Indianapolis Union Station modenization project, IU tower ha... (more)