An Eastbound coal train passes the Christmas tree in downtown Alderson during a heavy snowfall.

Nothing says coal country like cabooses and Top Gons.

Christmas 'snow clear' is displayed as green over red on the northbound White River Junction South Siding Switch interlocking signal ahead of the Amtak Vermonter on Sunday night. During lightly f... (more)

East bound from Bailey yard, this double stack reflects the rising sun.

A hot time in Junction City, as Ogden City Fire Department crews train hoses on a roaring creosote fire consuming the big multi-track bridge over a creek at the north end of the OUR&D Ogden yard, ... (more)

New England Central's American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funded CTC extension was placed into service on December 13, bringing signals into and through White River Junction for the first time si... (more)

A FEW MARBLES LEFT. On a back road in New Hampshire, an old crossing sign (with most of its marble reflectors intact) stands sentinel at twilight — just in case a lonely, midnight mo... (more)

The Burn of Thermite - A BNSF MOW worker sets off a crucible of Thermite powder to join a pair of railroad rails by welding them in place.

What "traditional" intermodal railroading looked like a generation ago: a long string of 90' trailer flats carrying a mix of 20 and 40' highway trailers and containers is a dozen or so miles into ... (more)

Welding Rail - A BNSF joint elimination crew welds the rails that MOW workers had set in and placed the night before on main track #1 through the station at Fullerton California. I ... (more)

Hot Rail, Main Two! - BNSF MOW workers replace the track on Main #1 through the station at Fullerton California as a Westbound stack train passes at track speed a mere 6 feet away. ... (more)

End of the BNSF TRANSCON - BNSF MOW workers and their contractors replace the track on Main #1 through the station at Fullerton California. The last time this was done was 14 years ago... (more)

Snappin Track - Like on a large HO layout with Bachmann EZ Snap Track (C), BNSF MOW workers and their contractors replace the track on Main #1 through the station at Fullerton California... (more)

Living on borrowed time, these B&O signals will fall in the coming weeks in suburban Cincinnati. Located at Kings Run Road adjacent to the Proctor & Gamble Ivorydale complex where Ivory Soap and ... (more)

While trains detoured around the south end of the lake via Union Paciifc's former Western Pacific, Southern Pacific work crews valiantly regained the route across the Great Salt Lake foot by foot ... (more)