During a mid-morning lull in traffic, the Great Hall at Chicago Union Station is mostly empty and quiet on November 11, 2019. The recently refurbished Great Hall was built in 1925, the 219-foot lo... (more)

An amazing piece of trackage is used on the southern approach to Chicago Union Station to keep busy passenger train traffic of Amtrak and Metra fluid that includes diamonds and double-slip switche... (more)

A maintenance worker rides BNSF's inspection car "Rio Grande" as the train's brakeman walks back up to the head end after throwing a switch into a siding.

Southern cabs 447 and 339 bring up the rear end of southbound 111 as they cross over the former L&N junction which would soon be removed.

In bone-chilling fog, Santa Fe trains meet at Cable Crossover near the top of Tehachapi Pass. Both of these trains are moving relatively fast, adding to the penetrating wind that blows through the... (more)

Exiting the Great Hall at Chicago Union Station, this grand hallway leads “To All Trains� of the north and south concourses on November 8, 2018.

Ready to board! After a fall evening rainstorm in the mid-1940s, the passengers are ready to board their luxury pullman car for the journey to their destinations. I'm sure the young family in the ... (more)

After his arrival from Calais via Paris-Basel-Gotthard-Chiasso. One of the Sleeping-Car from the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express, the most famous and expensive European train.

"Sunset on the Wetley Branch" The famous Colorado sunset as seen from the Great Western Railway's abandoned Welty Branch in Buda, Colorado. The Great Western Railway of Colorado ... (more)

Repair (change of an axle) on a track work car of the Matisa, with a road crane of Emil Egger company, in Winterthur freight yard.

Tacoma Rail's Mobile (formerly) Training Facility, was moved by a flatbed truck recently. The former UP caboose is used for training purposes, including a simulator. The new location out in fro... (more)

Contractors build a new turnout near East Belle Ayr Junction on the Orin Line south of Gillette, Wyoming, on May 4, 2007. To lessen delays to trains, the turnout and switch are completed near wher... (more)

Approach, Clear, Galaxy.

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Ancient Semaphores guard the the galactic core of the Milky Way as i... (more)

With the former Rio Grande route over Tennessee Pass now dormant since the last Union Pacific train operated over it in 1997, nature has been taking over portions of the route. On the east switch ... (more)

This is not a cathedral, but the Antwerpen-Centraal station, with a 75 meter high cupola. Built in 1905 by architect Louis de la Censerie, renovated from about 1993 to 2007.