Coming off the iconic Tie Siding ...

Halloween is only a few days away so what could be better than a ghost-like image of one of CNW's unique semaphores controlling the junction at St. Francis WI. in October of 1984? The approaching ... (more)

The steam era cantilever at West Tuscor indicates a westbound is lined through on a cool Summer evening.

Goodnight Moon

The moon rises over the east siding switch of Chapelle in one of the last fleeing days of these iconic signals. The 'Southern Infestation' of signals from Las V... (more)

The Sentinels of the Prairies

A sunrise look at the famed 'last semaphore' at MP 706. Now gone, these two signals were the easternmost blades on the Raton Subdivision for year... (more)

The Milky Way is apparent looming over the MP 783 intermediates on a clear Summer night in 2020 along the BNSF Glorieta Subdivision near Chapelle, New Mexico.

'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)

Wig wag quartet
Wisconsin Central’s ANPRA train heads southbound out of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on July 20, 1996. The Proviso-bound train is traveling on WC’s Fox Valley & Western, ... (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)

Neither Trick, Nor Treat

On the 31st of October 2021, I got off this train to find someone had found in the BNSF General Orders that the famed pair of signals at MP 706 on the ... (more)

A Centennial EMD locomotive passes under an absolute cantilever signal under a beautiful Wyoming sky. Duplicate Ektachrome. Photographer: Jack Hawkins. John E. Troxler Collection

Stormy Searchlight Sunset- One of the last installations of searchlight signals on the Union Pacific system stands guard over Hermosa, lit for oncoming traffic.

With just a solo GEVO for power, CSX Detroit to Grand Rapids freight D705 cruises through Green Oak, Michigan and under a classic C&O searchlight cantilever signal. D705 has just met its eastbound... (more)

BNSF 5724 leads an empty Lake State coal train south towards Wixom, MI on the LSRC Saginaw Subdivision. Here, sun light breaks through a gap in the tree cover as the train crosses Munger Rd.

The quiet pattering of rain and onset of evening darkness are brought to a sharp and deafening halt as the roar of empty CSX ethanol train K412 echos through the Tennessee hills. The headlights ca... (more)