Nothing has run on Tennessee Pass lately
Proof can be found looking down the main line just west of milepost 301 on this famous Rio Grande route that Union Pacific stopped operating in ... (more)

At the far East end of The Poor Fork Branch on the former L&N, sets this faded Alco S2 switcher for US Steel. Back in the day, this loco would switch loaded coal hoppers around from The Portal 31 ... (more)

A long abandoned hopper and a steel box car sit frozen in time, serving as a time capsule preserving a part of Mount Union's past. That is, so long as someone, or some group, remains in a position... (more)

On the Road to Alturas - Under threatening skies a view of a cattle crossing on the former Southern Pacific Modoc Line looking east towards Alturas California from the grade crossing at Cle... (more)

Morning Banjo at Pogue. A banjo player sits on the porch of the Pogue General Store and Post Office waiting for a train that may never come. This building still survives and is privately o... (more)

A Southern Pacific train loaded with salvaged track materials rolls west on the abandoned Oregon, California & Eastern Railway. It will return to home rail at Klamath Falls.

On a October morning the fall foliage colors start to come in. The Viaduct, once known as the longest and tallest railroad structure at 2,053 feet long and 301 feet high, was partially destroyed b... (more)

Near Martinsdale and Two Dot, MT. --- In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles of track west of Miles City ... (more)

Sunny shot of the rear of the last SP "Cadillac" on the former POTB.

At some point decades ago, an old E&LS coach (presumed - exact lineage not known) was left in Turner to be used, reportedly, as a local schoolhouse. But today, the town of Turner consists of one h... (more)

Abandoned remnants of the Rahway Valley Railroad Maplewood Branch. The branch line reached a length of nearly 4 miles and served numerous types of customers such as coal, lumber, building products... (more)

Twelve years after the Milwaukee Road's Pacific Coast extension abandonment, skeletons of a pair of ABS block signals still stand between Lennup and Loweth MT.

One of many former BN SD9s that made in onto the BNSF roster is now landlocked on the POTB in Tillamook. The locomotive was built for the Colorado & Southern in 1959 and sold to the POTB in 2002.... (more)

Linemen, Three Forks, MT. --- In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles of track west of Miles City Montana.... (more)

M-19 Fairmont Speeder, St. Paul Pass Tunnel, East Portal, MO. --- In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles ... (more)