It's a few minutes before midnight on a Friday night as a pair of GE's lead CSX auto train M216 as it breaks the silence in the small town of Holton, Indiana and splits the signals at West Versail... (more)

GT at Griffith Diamond and tower. https://www.railpictures.net/album/8659/

A small town scene that will soon be no longer possible. CSX train M820 splits the classic B&O CPLs in "downtown" Holton, Indiana, as my oldest daughter waves to the crew from the tr... (more)

NS 25A with a now rare 9700 series leader glides by a N&W code line a remnant of the past as it makes its way South

CN 8851 and a SD40-2W leading a local past a stretch of code line near Gibson City.

Pole lines were pretty much everywhere along the ROW at one time but are becoming increasingly scarce. The ex-MILW (now CPKC) C&M Sub between Chicago and Milwaukee is one exception. Here Amtrak #3... (more)

CSX train L452 makes its way for Cincinnati as it splits CPLs at Nebraska, IN.

On a line dominated by coal trains, the Denver to Galesburg train provides a welcome splash of variety. There has been plenty of change in the 25 years since this photo was taken. The searchlights... (more)

A Harbor transfer heads towards UP's Yard Center Yard on the southside of Dalton on the UP Villa Grove Sub. Here the job crosses all the way over from the IHB connection track to the yard lead at... (more)

UP's Peoria Local (L-PD01) pulls onto the TZPR main and then will shove it's train the 3/4 of a mile down to Collier Yard. There are plenty of boxcars up from bound for KJRY interchange. Of hist... (more)

There are some cool relics along this old Rock Island mainline to Colorado Springs. A lot of the code line has been taken down along with some of the ABS signals. Here east of Brewster, along old ... (more)

A high load on a depressed-center flat car is transported in a short Santa Fe train, led by GP303211 (ex-ATSF 1211). The two tank cars may be there as buffer cars. (La Mirada California – Augu... (more)

Burlington Northern “Expediter” train 46 flies eastbound toward Somonauk, Illinois, on the frigid winter day of February 17, 1990. Leading the train is BN GP39M No. 2800, rebuilt from CB&Q GP3... (more)

ATSF 920 and EMC E1 number 6 lead train 21, a five car El Capitan doing 35 MPH on the east side of Raton Pass near Starkville Colorado, in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

Eastbound NS 146 passes by MP 212, 7 miles east of Logansport, IN during the afternoon of 10/28/90. Kodachrome 64.