Just around the corner from where the Not-Quite-As-Mighty Willamette River joins the Mighty Columbia River in Portland OR, is the Columbia Grain Facility. In this scene the bulk ship Mamma Mia is... (more)

Sunset for the Southwest Chief- With the evening sky darkening, the last Superliner of the eastbound Southwest Chief streaks by the only wig-wag crossing signal in service on a Class I Rail... (more)

Still in use multilevel equipment is mixed with stored single level ex-GO Transit AMT 203 and a gallery car at the Pointe-Saint-Charles Maintenance Centre. In the background is the Victoria bridge... (more)

On a beautiful Spring morning, the early bird perches on the last remaining example of a B&O-style Tilting Target Signal still in use on the CSX system, standing watch over the Madison Railroad Di... (more)

All is quiet along the CN Minntac Sub at Noimi Jct.

Frozen in time. The mainline of the East Broad Top Railroad in Orbisonia, PA, was completed in August of 1873, ultimately reaching 33 miles at its height. When the line closed in 1956, it was thou... (more)

The iconic Pennsylvania Railroad color position light signals have stood on the Pittsburg Line since the days of steam and have seen four railroads. Sadly, they are all being replaced in favor of ... (more)

The remains of the Feb 28th wreck where one car derailed, and was dragged for a while, tearing up a few miles of track, before the train came to a stop, with about 7 cars derailed on and around th... (more)

As cold weather sets in the rail on the railroads will go thru some strain. As the steel cools with winter temperatures, it contracts. That means any points that are weak will break or pull apart.... (more)

What I believe to be a trio of bridge pieces are seen on CN 305 in St-Henri.

Three Liebherr cranes are on a late CN 305 as it heads west through St-Henri.

The re-erection of Conrail's LEMO tower at Strasburg in 1985, with my wife, daughter, and sister-in-law posed for a sense of scale; it's a huge building. The tower was cut into seven pieces for h... (more)

Milepost 242: Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

A panorama, formed of 33 individual frames stitched together, shows off the entire arc of Horseshoe Curve in its modern form... (more)

CN installed this equipment and it's designed to detect uneven track (soft spots) that might cause loaded ore cars to derail. There is this old ore car that works out of Proctor and a new car wit... (more)