The classic lines of a telegraph pole, still in service along UP's Evanston Sub, are silhouetted against the azure sky of a summer day.

May 15th 2009 A heavy storm came though Carothers about an hour before the fog started to roll in off of the Potomac River. I remember how quiet the night was, I could hear the approaching frei... (more)

This was taken back in 2007 around Carothers tunnel just outside of Paw Paw WV. It had been raining earlier and just as the rain stopped the fog started to roll in.

New York Central J1c Hudson 5273 steams into Oneida eastbound in one of my father's old shots. This 4-6-4 is a bit of a star, having been featured in renderings in a 1930 railroad publication, THE... (more)

Southbound BNSF passes by a relic of the Frisco which once carried signal code and communication lines. Many of the River Sub poles in southern Missouri were removed in the mid 2000s, but a few st... (more)

Remnant of the old pole line still remains as a UP C40-8 leads the NS 365 westbound on the main at the east end Dunfee siding. UP 9247 is currently on lease to Norfolk Southern.

The westbound Carl Sandburg is only a few mintues from making its 9am station stop at Mendota. Here the train screams out of Earlville about 5 miles east of Mendota. The old signals and poles line... (more)

A welded rail train behind two mother-slug sets heads down the C&O at VA Junction south of Chillicothe on a fine spring morning. Get those C&O cantilever signals while you still can!

It's a perfect spring morning on CSX's Northern Sub as we catch an eastbound with coal empties headed back to the mines.

A westbound freight train has just passed thru the small town of Somonauk on BNSF Mendota Sub. Somonauk is located at MP 59, around 16 miles west of Aurora.

The sun has set on another day as a loaded coal train pounds its way towards Chicago for interchange with an eastern railroad. Telegraph lines/poles and classic CB&Q signal bridges are disappearin... (more)

A pair of INRD 90's have been doing the honors for the CP this week move their hotshot train 182/183 between Bensenville, IL, and Minneapolis, MN. This pair and a CP GE rumble eastbound in the ear... (more)

While new snow clings to antique code line insulators, Union Pacific's Roseville, CA to North Platte, NE manifest ascends the Evanston Sub grade at Peterson, Utah.

Small elevators and a surviving code line add charm to the otherwise flat and unremarkable Hillsboro Subdivision between Fargo and Grand Forks. It also helps when Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder... (more)

E-L freight works the main west of Dover.