Seemingly a hundred miles out into the Southern Colorado prairie, in a tiny ghost town known of by few called Delhi, stands the last wig-wag on a class one mainline in the United States. On this m... (more)

Piercing through a deteriorating cloud deck and resting on the shoulders of the western Rockies, a June sun illuminates prairie lands of rural Colorado just outside of Trinidad. Pointed toward La ... (more)

Located 36 miles southwest of La Junta, Colorado along US-HWY 350 and BNSF's Raton Subdivision is the last remaining active Wig-Wag crossing on any Class I railroad. Seen here, running on time, AM... (more)

Almost nine years ago, BNSF Railway announced its intention to discontinue service of the Raton and Glorieta Subdivisions in Colorado and New Mexico due to a lack of sustainable traffic over the o... (more)

Blasting west past the the last remaining wig-wag on the BNSF system.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief screams by one of the few active wig-wags in the country on its way to Raton Pass, and today's railfanning objective, the semaphores.

Amtrak 3, the Southwest Chief, blasts through the quiet countryside west of Delhi, CO.

The lone operating wig-wag in Colorado waits for the call to duty in 10 hours when the westbound Southwest Chief will pass by on its way to California. It passes time admiring the fantastic stars... (more)

Amtrak #3, led by Phase 4 heritage unit #184, passes the last operating mainline wig-wag in Colorado at Delhi,CO. 8/2/11

Last operating wig-wag grade crossing signal in Colorado. The Magnetic Signal Company designed grade crossing device likely was built in the late 1940's. The company was bought out by Griswold an... (more)