Poor 'ole Belle Mead Station

Built by the Reading Railroad in 1919, this station replaced an older three-story station (seen Railroad: Reading Company
Locomotive: Depot
Location: Belle Meade, New Jersey, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 09, 2021

Reading Railroad's Hopewell Station

This gal still has a glimmer in her eye even at 145 years. Built in 1876 by the Delaware and Bound Brook Railroad, the station was subsequently leased... (more)

It is now 2021 and the B&O station and hotel have seen better days. Built in the early 1900’s, the hotel was used by train crews to take rest before coming back to take another train. Amtrak onc... (more)

Shortly after sunrise the "HST 125" train 1B07 "Inter7City" of Scotrail from Aberdeen to Edinburgh with 2250 Hp diesel power cars of class 43 in front and another in the rear, is crossing the 2523... (more)

Within the next few years, Nassau Tower will be demolished for a third track to be installed between Floral Park and Hicksville. But instead of demolishing the tower, some people have suggested th... (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)

When the Rio Grande depot at Provo was demolished late in 1986, a tiny wooden shack was placed in the parking lot, serving as the new waiting room for Amtrak patrons. I doubt these folks were all ... (more)

Even though thirsty steam engines vanished from the mainline many years before, Rio Grande's Mill Fork water tank endures yet another harsh winter in Utah's Spanish Fork Canyon. Verne Jeffers Phot... (more)

Houston...err I mean Minneapolis "we have a problem". The last of an unfortunate string of events for the Soo Line in Upper Michigan occurred on Halloween evening 1984 when the Soo Lift Bridge bec... (more)

A CSXT coal car gets turned on the rotary dump that feeds the coke ovens at AK Steel, Ashland Works.

Giant coal tipple pier at the Reading Company's Philadelphia coal port at Port Richmond on the Delaware River. 35 mm slide taken in 1965 or '66. In a semi-automatic operation, loaded hopper cars w... (more)

Q381 passes the Rochester Amtrak station.

Westbound Long Island freight passes historic "B" tower.

SPRING tower, formerly New haven SSE274, survives to this day hiding under the I-91 overpass at the interchange of the Amtrak Springfield Line, the former B&A main and the Springfield Term. RR. De... (more)

Viewed from now closed US Postal Service Postal Annex, Denver Union Station. Wynkoop is at right. Tracks are to left. Denver Regional Transportation District owns building in 2004.