Operator Dick Herr is entering information on the Station Record of Train Movements at the 1938 vintage Union Switch & Signal Co. CTC machine governing train movements from Glen Loch through Coate... (more)

Conrail SW-1 No. 8433 brings a 5-car Superliner-equipped Amtrak train out of Chicago Union Station past Harrison Street Tower in May 1982. This view is from Polk Street overpass, which is now remo... (more)

Forced Perspective: ACS-64 #603 leads Keystone Service Train 651 into Trenton as a distant Silverliner IV set proceeds east in the distance to turn after completing its run on SEPTA Trento... (more)

BNSF 4059 brings its train (Q-SBDCHI 7-24) underneath one of last sets of Santa Fe style signal bridges in the nation. With cantilevers on the property (not constructed), the fate of these signals... (more)

Under threatening skies, Conway Scenic's "Red Ball Special" arrives in Whitefield becoming the first passenger train to cross the diamond in 35 years. Appropriately, ex-MEC 252, the last... (more)

Just before sunset, UP 8159 West emerges from beneath the Dallas Convention Center and pass South Tower, which is part of the John F. Kennedy Memorial.

Everything in this shot is Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the locomotive paint, the rails, the concrete tower, the land. THIS is historic railroad preservation and it warms the cockles of the hea... (more)

The End Has Come

It's late summer of 1947, and the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western has completed its order of 24 EMD F3(A) and 12 F3(B). The end of steam on the Route of Phoebe Sno... (more)

Mattes Street Nights- In what could very easily pass for a DL&W publicity photo, an A-B-A set of EMD F3's poses alongside the Mattes Street interlocking tower in downtown Scranton. This pho... (more)

Mattes Street Nights- In what could very easily pass for a DL&W publicity photo, an A-B-A set of EMD F3's poses alongside the Mattes Street interlocking tower in downtown Scranton. This ph... (more)

In May 1982, New York Central tavern-lounge-observation car No. 48 trails an Amtrak train into Chicago Union Station scissoring past Amtrak SW1 No. 736 and F40PH No. 249 leading another passenger ... (more)

A westbound Milwaukee Road freight crosses the Soo Line diamonds rattling the windows of Duplainville tower on a snowless Wisconsin winter day in February 1984.

AMT 1369 pushes the mid-day train on the Mont-St-Hilaire line over the Lachine Canal.

Harrington Tower. While building their train, HA-1 passes the historic Harrington Tower in downtown Harrington, DE.

About 75 minutes before its 1545 departure time from Central Station, VIA 67 backs up with VIA 6443 pushing the train over the Lachine Canal. At left is the out of use CN swing bridge.