Up close look at the head of a section of rail that has been grinded by a LORAM Rail Grinder. This process is used to restore the profile of rail and remove irregularities in the rail, which exte... (more)

This was the first plan to deal with an errant drawbar. It might not have worked out the way it was intended, but the strap held for about a mile or so. The goal of getting the car into the ne... (more)

Not your typical "coupler pan" shot. The trailing centerbeam flatcar dropped it's drawbar about a mile or so back. At about 3 mph they made it about half mile before the strap that was holding t... (more)

Nothing screams out Welcome to Deshler than CPL's on the Toledo Sub and great people.

In gorgeous, late afternoon sun, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief drops down the 2-percent part of the grade on Raton Pass with Fisher Peak in the background on May 21, 2016.

Sunlight peeks through one of the few semaphore signals protecting the siding at Chapelle, New Mexico along BNSF's Glorieta Subdivision on May 21, 2016.

The signals at Belcher silhouetted against a dark and foggy sky.

A westbound Conrail N-7A caboose flashes across the diamond at Block Station LANDIS, where the Reading & Columbia Branch crossed the double-tracked PRR mainline. No. 21738 was built by the St. Lo... (more)

The morning sky explodes with a vibrant display of colour over the CSX Terminal Subdivision at Depew, New York. These New York Central target signals are existing on very short time and are expect... (more)

The re-erection of Conrail's LEMO Tower at Strasburg. LEMO (or J-Tower) is one of only two surviving Victorian Era two-story wooden PRR signal towers; the other being SHORE Tower in North Philly.... (more)

The Pullman car brings up the rear of the Westbound Pelican as it leaves Christiansburg, Virginia, bound for Radford where it will turn and return to Roanoke.

A westbound oil train knocks the Larimer, Pennsylvania Position Light signals down in this time exposure.

The CN has started to do heavy work in Michigan to replace alot of the older GTW style signals for the upcoming PTC cutover. One of the cooler GTW signals still left is this cantilever signal at M... (more)

Looking south on the old Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range railroad laid tracks that once served the Thunderbird South coarse crusher loadout which came online in 1976 to help feed the Fairlane pelle... (more)

Though the fate of coal trains is unknown, it is safe to say change is bound to come. Coal train 819 passes the endangered N&W Color Position Light signals (CPL's) as it heads West along the Pulas... (more)