Completed in 1909, Shields River Valley Railway built a 22-mile line north from a connection on the Northern Pacific at Mission, Montana, to serve the agricultural communities of Grannis, Chadborn... (more)

Guided tour of the Kerzers signal box, which was in operation from 1901 to 2004. The Bruchsal G type system was then replaced by an electronic interlocking that is now remotely controlled from the... (more)

Getting out of St. Regis before dawn, we headed to some of Montana Rail Link’s last Northern Pacific-era semaphores east of town. Magic colors appeared as a rising sun finally peaked over the ta... (more)

1982 photo of the mission-style 1903-built PRR station aside one of the last 4-track stretches of the old PRR Middle Division, with a nice Conrail-blue MW truck parked for the weekend.

'Last Full Moon On The Right'

With the days left of this sentinel of the high desert measured in mere days, one of the final semaphores on the New Mexico Department of Transpor... (more)

The new/old Waumbek Tank. Approximately 1 mile from Marshfield Station, and 1,000 vertical feet higher, we find Waumbek Tank.....or more properly, Waumbek Station. Throughout the history ... (more)

Not a bad neighborhood—but it’s sure noisy at times
Taking up residence behind the background of a Union Switch and Signal Company searchlight signal on the Soo Line’s westbound m... (more)

In the small community of Campbellsburg, Indiana, the (arguably) most intact pair of semaphores on the ex-Monon now CSX Hoosier Subdivision still stand. As evidenced by the shrubs and trees taking... (more)

As another autumn day turns to night on October 1, 2020, the signals light up at West Tuscor, Montana, in response to a couple mouse clicks from the Montana Rail Link dispatcher in Missoula. Not l... (more)

Before the rebuilding process can begin, an EMD Blomberg truck is carefully taken apart in the truck shop inside Union Pacific’s Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015.

The "Lantern Girl". At the conclusion of the November, 2021 Historic Transport Preservation (HTP) photo shoot at Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, we had an opportunity to re-cr... (more)

C&O Searchlights at Sunrise...a scene you almost want to disappear into.

Several ongoing projects sit on the floor of Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad’s machine shop in Durango, Colorado, on August 30, 2021. An all-steel passenger truck is being fabricated i... (more)

Back in the days of the Santa Fe Railroad, this neon sign unfailingly greeted visitors to the office complex on the north side of the yard at Clovis, NM. Seen here at sunset on a cloudy day back ... (more)

Guarding over a long gone connection, the signal for Control Point Oakland Junction still stands. The signal guards the old West Point Belt Line that I was standing on, which was constructed has a... (more)