These westbound Baldwin "Babyface" units are on an upgrade coming into Westfield, so they are definitely making plenty of Baldwin noise! This location is very different 50 years later. Freight tr... (more)

BNSF's test train pulls east into the siding at Timpas to clear up for the evening, it's headlight reflecting against the classic AT&SF pole line, amazingly still in use in 2013.

The electrical conductors hang down from the long-abandoned pole line as a SD60 leads a westbound after winter storm "Saturn" dumped nearly a foot of snow the night before.

Four at West Amboy - A West bound earthworm (grain train) sits in the hole at West Amboy while a westbound stack train approaches from the rear. An eastbound auto train can be seen cli... (more)

The Station to Station special train heads west at west siding switch Levy, NM with Wagon Mound in the distance above the train. 9/17/13

Amtrak #14 heads north near the base of Mt. Shasta at Cougar, CA on 6/30/13. Code line is still in use on this section of the UP Black Butte Sub.

UP 8661 makes up for lost time after having waited for UP 844 to leave Denver. Look at all those old glass insulators!

I'm sure this tree has seen many sights a railfan would love.

Sunset at Ash Hill - A westbound stack train rounds the bend as it approaches Ash Hill from Siberia.

Silent sentinels
Railroad pole and code lines are getting more rare, but Union Pacific's right-of-way up Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming still has the silent sentinels lining the... (more)

Another day on the C&O has come to an end, but scenes like this will soon be just a memory. Signs of signal replacements have begun to pop up on this portion of the line, and the masts at West En... (more)

One of the few remaining pole lines still standing in eastern Kansas looks over this westbound Q train pulling up the grade out of the Cottonwood River valley and into Emporia.

Heavy snow hangs from the code line as an empty ore train begins its assault on Proctor Hill from the dock in Duluth.

The old and the new. Three widecab locomotives, each belonging to a different road lead a BNSF hopper train through Tehachapi, passing the old code line poles, soon to be removed.

A loaded coal train off the secondary mainline at Bucyrus, and is enroute towards Columbus, OH, for next crew change. Here the train passes thru the north side of Columbus.