Night time sets in over the city as a BNSF grain train knocks down the signal at Wichita South Junction.

It almost looks like a one of the main yard tracks at Canadian National’s Proctor Yard is ballasted with taconite pellets on June 13, 2016. This yard is a former Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range p... (more)

The sun is rising over the Clark Fork River Valley east of St. Regis, Montana, on September 13, 1998. Morning fog is slowly burning off as the sun crests over the mountains to the east, silhouetti... (more)

Ribs and rivets
Incredibly bright rays of a desert sunrise at Mounds, Utah, light up the aluminum sides of a coal train on October 6, 2009.

The classy Southern Pacific sign on the Davis, California, Amtrak station gives accurate milage to San Francisco and Ogden, as well as elevation in fractions of a foot!

What's wrong with this picture? Well, I've seen a lot of railroad signals but none with wire covering the lenses. This looks to be a serious case of vandalism. The lower head of this triple head ... (more)

A volunteer at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum works on restoring a Baldwin truck inside the shop at Duluth, Minnesota, on June 10, 2016.

The time on the clock tower appears to be about 9:30 as we see daily activity at the CNW Lakefront terminal in Milwaukee. There would be a NRHS Convention special running out to Clyman later this ... (more)

With the afternoon's monsoons passed, and pelting a different portion of the plains, the endangered former AT&SF semaphores in the ghost town of Colmor, New Mexico, faithfully guard the Raton Subd... (more)

Trackside waiting for installation for PTC, a colorlight signal lies on its side with one of the signal heads lower aspect covers open, giving a view of its inner workings. Keeping trains moving ... (more)

The former Erie Railroad Depot in Kent, Ohio no longer serves passengers and hasn't since the last train departed in 1970. Still, it's easy to imagine the depot in its heyday with the Erie Railroa... (more)

The cleanup efforts from the derailment that happened in Cheyenne a couple of weeks ago is coming along nicely. Crews have piled up most of the wood and wheel sets. A few centerbeam cars are still... (more)

Built in 1901, demolished on June 21, 2016 by the IL-DOT for the new I-74 bridge over the Mississippi River. History is lost after preservationists failed to save the building.

A zooming intermodal train lights up the eastbound signals at Bucklin, Missouri at 1:07 AM. The fate of these signals are unknown, but for now they stand tall.

WJ Riegel Rail Solutions performs track maintenance on the Albany Port Railroad in front of the large Ardent Mills facility. The specialized ballast hopper is built by Hudson ROI Equipment Inc wit... (more)