The sun has gone behind the mountains for the day as the second of two coal loads heads west with a pair of BNSF SD70ACe's leading just east of Hudson, Colorado on December 14, 2015.

"CONRAIL"
An old Conrail boxcar sits behind the old Cumberland Valley Railroad Freight Depot in Winchester, VA. A local theater remodeled the depot for its use and use the bo... (more)

Brand-new 1977 model-year automobiles head to showroom floors, rounding the Horseshoe Curve on an ex-PRR tri-level auto-rack.

The rolling signboard that once announced to passengers at Denver Union Station where they could travel west on the Rio Grande Zephyr is preserved at the Colorado Railroad Museum at Golden.

"WARREN NIGHTS"
Just south of Front Royal, VA at the southern end of 1.3 mile long siding is "Warren." The historic Norfolk and Western cpl signals still guard the... (more)

An EBT train still sitting where it was parked when the railroad shut down in 1956. The track is the ramp that leads up to the coal bunker for filling the locomotive tenders. All along the EBT mai... (more)

As his helper watches and shields his eyes from the bright flame, a welder repairs the switch points on the west switch of East Portal siding in front of the imposing edifice of the Moffat Tunnel.... (more)

Dusk has arrived as BNSF's Denver to Pueblo, Colorado manifest rolls on through the northern part of Colorado Springs just after sunset on December 06, 2015.

Finally the rain stops and I'm able to take some night shots... CSX train W081-01 sits and illuminates the southend "Darth Vader" color light signals, as CSX train Q102-01 slowly takes ... (more)

Heading south towards Tillsonburg, the crew on the snow plow encounters their first small drift and make quick work at speed.

Between assignments, Jersey Central kept Lehigh & New England locomotives and cabooses at the CNJ Bethlehem PA station. Also there was this gem of a wood-sheathed snowplow, L&NE #353.

Jersey Central's tower and main line sit abandoned at Nesquehoning Junction, located near Jim Thorpe, PA. Allentown- Scranton traffic had been rerouted to the Lehigh Valley line between Lehig... (more)

The rain continues as a Metra train from Elburn is seen coming into the La Fox, Illinois station along Union Pacific's Geneva Subdivision on June 20, 2015.

After a Union Pacific track gang replaced the frog at West Mounds, Utah, on May 11, 2006, welders move in and use a thermite weld on the rail joints. A one-time-use form is attached to the rails s... (more)

A Roger Puta photograph