"Portal North Under the Mid-Hudson Bridge"

On January 15th, 2025, the second of three Portal North Bridge arches/spans ducks under the Mid-Hudson Bridge in Poughkeepsie, New... (more)

"New Railroad Bridge Under a Former Railroad Bridge"

On January 15th, 2025, the second of three Portal North Bridge arches/spans passes under the former New Haven Railroad P... (more)

"Portal North by Esopus Lighthouse"

On November 19th, 2024, the first of three Portal North Bridge arches/spans dwarfs the Esopus Meadows Lighthouse as it floats down the Hudson River... (more)

"BOAT! BRIDGE!"

On November 19th, 2024, my son, Greg, pauses playing with his new dump truck to witness history in the making, as the first of three Portal North Bridge arches/spans f... (more)

Disused railroad material is also sometimes reused in Mauritania. Here at Ben Amira station, the building on the right is made from a former MIFERMA freight train carriage. The building on the lef... (more)

A train around two kilometers long takes a few minutes to pass by.

The large hall of Zurich's main station from 1871, today a large square, then with 6 head tracks. In 1902, the tracks were shortened for the first time and in 1930 they disappeared completely from... (more)

After several days of traveling through Mauritania, the group from Switzerland met the railroad for the first time at noon that day in Choum. A few minutes later, the empty ore train V5 from Nouad... (more)

In Mauritania, discarded rail vehicles are not scrapped but cannibalized and left somewhere. The remains of these two former diesel vehicles, known as draisines, can be seen in Choum. On the right... (more)

It is easy to imagine that drifting sand plays a major role on a railroad line through the Sahara desert. The track maintenance teams use shovels and manpower or, as here, a bulldozer. They will s... (more)

“Now boarding the midnight train to nowhere” while not a mainline station like Atlanta or Macon, Milledgeville was still served by the old Central of Georgia Railroad and Georgia Railroad and ... (more)

Modern wheelset lathe in the SNIM workshop in Nouadhibou. Photography was only allowed here, otherwise it was strictly forbidden inside the halls.

The Milky Way rises over the station at Crawfords.

There is a large underground water reservoir near Boulenouar at kilometer 96 of the 652-kilometer railroad line from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. This is used to supply the villages and towns along th... (more)

In Mauritania, the disused permanent way material such as steel ties and rails is deposited next to the tracks and remains there. Some of the ties are reused for simple shade, as markings or even ... (more)