The approach signals east of Columbia on the NS Port Road stand as silent beacons in the night sky. Usually heavily used under the cover of darkness, they won't be seeing any traffic this night. A... (more)

A C&NW sign still hangs on a pedestrian overpass between what is now Metra's Ogilvie station and the Riverside Plaza building, formerly the Chicago Daily News Building.

CN Joffre Yard from 90 meters in altitude

Heavy equipment is now on the scene and the clean up has begun. Three brand-new 737s lie partially submerged in the Clark Fork River. The spectacular derailment made national news...it was quite ... (more)

Where Rio Grande trains once thundered eastbound to attack the steep grade over Tennessee Pass is now seemingly a garden of sorts. On August 12, 2015, at the east end of the CTC siding at Minturn,... (more)

Looking more like the set of a horror movie, the old O&W station has been vacant since a fire in 2004.

The former ATSF searchlights still stand tall on the Glorieta and Raton Subs in New Mexico, but not for much longer. There is an active replacement project in effect on the line, which no longer s... (more)

At dusk, a 199 train accelerates westward out of Stockton after crossing SP's Valley Line. The conductor in the caboose has just picked up his orders at the tower.

Among the grandest of grand railroad stations in the USA is the one in our nation's capital, Washington Union Station.

A northbound CSX freight crosses the Tennessee River on a cloudy night.

Flowers begin to grow between slag ballast and rusty 136-pound rails laid by Rio Grande in 1970’s, as nature slowly reclaims what is hers on top of Colorado’s Tennessee Pass on August 12, 2015... (more)

Even though the passage of the last train was 18 years ago, the summit tunnel on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande line over Colorado’s Tennessee Pass appears in remarkably good shape as seen ... (more)

A northbound train streaks across the Tennessee River at Tenbridge, its headlight illuminating the lift span ahead. A southbound train is stopped on the bridge, its head end in the yard for a crew... (more)

This MoPac Era Signal Bridge still stands. But with replacements up and ready to be turned one has to wonder how many more sunsets this signal bridge will see.