We are at GI Tower (closed June 1968) looking northeast along the NYC's mainline from Louisville to Colombus, Indiana. This area would be completely unrecognizable today. Any sign that the railroa... (more)

This is the north approach to the Big Four Bridge which spans the Ohio River between Jeffersonville, IN and Louisville, KY. The photo was taken looking south along Mulberry Street in Jeffersonvill... (more)

Southern Railway searchlights are on their last stand here at Delaplain, just north of Georgetown, KY on the 1st District of the CNO&TP. With the blue hour coming to an end, nightfall is eminent a... (more)

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)