An absolutely beautiful sunset has fell over the hills of southwestern Virginia as Norfolk Southern intermodal train 202 grinds up the grade. The exhaust and evening fog has filled the valley as t... (more)

Back in 1990 an empty 3 car DMU leaves Lichfield City, heading for Birmingham. In 2016, the semaphores are long gone, and the line is now electrified.

On a dreary morning in historic downtown Abingdon, Virginia, Norfolk Southern's rebuild AC44C6M's lead eastbound manifest 38Q under the N&W CPL's enroute to Roanoke and points beyond.

15 years and counting. The dwarf signal at the West End Saluda is dark, as it's been for the past 15 years as the grade sits silently in the North Carolina mountains.

CN 2416 leads M349 west through B-12 interlocking in Franklin Park, about to jump on the Waukesha Sub

CSX 480 leads a train of hoppers under the iconic dual cantilevers at Quinnimont deep in the humid New River Gorge. Since this shot was taken, these signals, the last of their kind on the C&O mai... (more)

ESSAY.- My gift for Valentine's Day was permission to go railfanning. After catching this train in Port Reading and Sewaren I quickly made my way to South Amboy to catch it just south of t... (more)

Warm Red

With the "Real Feel" temperature hovering around 14°, M&E 18 rounds the curve into Millburn on Track 1. 18 is in charge of 7 empty cars of off the Chester and H... (more)

Norfolk and Western class J number 611 storms away from a crew change at the Hurt Connection near Alta Vista, Virginia. The temperature was still in the teens, highlighting the steam exhaust. Bui... (more)

Old New York Central Signals - Clear!

Metra F40PH-3 #103 leads an outbound train, Metra F40PH-3 #106 shoves an inbound train, and an Amtrak Hiawatha is seen in the distance during the busy afternoon rush hour in Chicago at CP Morgan, ... (more)

Splitting the blades, Amtrak's original veterans unit #42 leads Amtrak's Southwest Chief through an intermediate set of semaphore signals just west of Chapelle, NM.

"AR"
An eastbound Norfolk Southern manifest reaches the Allegheny Summit at 2,167 feet above sea level near Gallitzin, PA. The headlights from the oncoming train illuminate t... (more)

Southbound manifest Q539 tops the Duff Mountain grade as winter storm Jonas continues to dump snow across northern Tennessee. The storm practically shut down the KD Sub with signal failures and tr... (more)

"CROSSING LIGHTS"
The signals on the Middle Division at PT174 near Horningford, PA. Five trains passed in a span of 40 minutes. Here an eastbound approaches silhouetting the ... (more)