The signals at the north end of the Folkston funnel stand as sentinel's in the night as a yellow over flashing green waits for a fast approaching northbound Amtrak train to arrive.

The new reality. The fire of May 8, 1974 caused substantial damage to the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge, and ending the cross Hudson River traffic of the Maybrook Line. On the warm autumn evening o... (more)

The last day. Today is the last day that commuter trains will run through the Town of Mount Royal for at least three years, as work on the REM light rail project will cause the closure of t... (more)

Mid track at Mid Grade. For many, the reality of Norfolk Southern removing the former Pennsylvania Railroad signals on its Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Divisions really hit home on Sunday, May 5, 201... (more)

Constructed by James Clifford & Sons of Lenox and completed in July 1903, the Lenox Station of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad served passengers until the cessation of regular passen... (more)

This rather bizarre looking vehicle is a "Snow Harvester" and are used throughout the Trans Siberian railway to clear the daily build up of snow from the tracks. As you can see they're n... (more)

Hump days are over

Some 19 years after the last train rolled through here, the Columbus & Greenville's trestle over Little Black Creek still stands. Mother nature has begun her process of reclaiming the area with a ... (more)

As dusk falls over Readville, MA, New Haven Railroad semaphores guard the junction of the Dorchester branch (now the MBTA Fairmount line) and the Midland branch (now the MBTA Forge Park line).

An RS-18 and refurbished coaches. A pair of refurbished VIA Rail coaches (VIA 8109 & VIA 8100) is coupled to CAD 1825 (an ex-CP RS-18), I believe a VIA Rail engine was about to pick them up... (more)

A classic sentinel of old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, this old Color Position Light Dwarf Signal still stands guard over the switch from an industrial spur onto the Indiana & Ohio Railway's Midland... (more)

A look back upon happier times - by that I mean 2019. A decent sized group of photographers and actors gathered at the LA Fairgrounds on a fall evening to recreate scenes, like the one portrayed a... (more)

A quiet morning as the Ringling Brothers red circus train is in Orlando, Florida a few days after Christmas.

A Loram rail grinder is at rest near the venerable Napanee Station, built by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1856 and barely visible at right.

Creating it's own blizzard, a YYZ bound UPX train zips past one of the last CN detours to Montreal via the CPR to use the Weston Sub.