Brunswick, MD 11/30/2013 - The bitter cold of a 25 degree night has claimed the water draining from purposeful holes in the bottom of a loaded coal hopper waiting for its call to a power plant on ... (more)

Humping under a Waxing Crescent
A setting waxing crescent moon shows up in the still blue western sky as centerbeams loaded with lumber get classified on the East Hump at North Platte, ... (more)

Classify by gravity
The lights of the yard brighten up the night, as a freight car streams by down into the bowl off the Union Pacific’s East Hump at North Platte, Nebraska, on the ni... (more)

A signal maintainer takes a look at a venerable CPL.

Interior of Armstrong lever equipped Z Tower.

A southbound intermodel passes the cliff at Storm King Mountain.

View onto the traffic hub Brig in the upper Valais, gateway to the Simplon railway tunnel and the Simplon pass, where the Lötschberg mountain line (middle in the foreground) meets the SBB from Ge... (more)

Night shift at Amtrak's K Tower.

In the innocent days before railroaders made extensive use of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) like safety vests, hardhats, etc., a Burlington Northern signal maintainer uses his athletic abili... (more)

While exploring the abandoned Franklin & Tilton Railroad, I came across a cache of more than a dozen Boston & Maine mileposts, whistle posts, and other concrete posts and signage laying in the adj... (more)

Ghostly Remains, Part 2. Another shot of the abandoned Gerrish Depot station in Boscawen, New Hampshire. For caption information, clic... (more)

As the third trick operator at North Platte’s East Hump checks his array of glowing computer screens, cars continue to roll down the hump to be classified. A UTLX tank car rolls by the lights of... (more)

This temporary sign was put up along the track panels set up by Union Pacific to pull Big Boy 4014 from the Rail Giants Museum out into the parking lot.

The neon sign towering over Raton, NM comes alive at 7pm, allowing this view of the former ATSF passenger depot. The depot is still functioning in the service of Amtrak and BNSF.