We are standing on the access road just west of Randolph Tunnel near Doe Gully, WV. Back in an oppressively hot July, eastbound No. 376 encountered a sun kink just west of Randolph Tunnel. The h... (more)

I Waited All Morning for a Train at Ken's Crossing, and All I have to Show for it is a Picture of this Truck! - A contractor for BNSF sprays salt solution on the tracks and ballast to me... (more)

A meet on Crawford Hill.

From the precarious perch high above Little Gore Canyon an eastbound load of Colorado coal tackles the 1% grade along the Colorado River.

A SP tunnel motor leads a westbound hotshot upgrade near Granite, CO.

The venerable cantilevered searchlight signals watch another day fade away at Verona. All most a half hour past sunset, I couldn't buy a train on the transcon for the past hour.

Railroads employed "date nails" to mark the last time ties were replaced. I have only come across these relics on what is now the CN Iron Range Sub and in Two Harbors outside the museum. The most... (more)

C_c_c_cold at -21C (-6F). But timing is everything as I managed to get both flashing lights on.

In 1995, high-tech propane switch heaters had yet to come to the CSX interlocking at Miller Tower in Cherry Run, WV. Old kerosene switch pots were still in use. They were dirty, smelly and requi... (more)

Glass telegraph insulators on display at the Tehachapi Depot Railroad Museum.

Christmas 'snow clear' is displayed as green over red on the northbound White River Junction South Siding Switch interlocking signal ahead of the Amtak Vermonter on Sunday night. During lightly f... (more)

A FEW MARBLES LEFT. On a back road in New Hampshire, an old crossing sign (with most of its marble reflectors intact) stands sentinel at twilight — just in case a lonely, midnight ... (more)

The Burn of Thermite - A BNSF MOW worker sets off a crucible of Thermite powder to join a pair of railroad rails by welding them in place.

Welding Rail - A BNSF joint elimination crew welds the rails that MOW workers had set in and placed the night before on main track #1 through the station at Fullerton California. I ... (more)

Hot Rail, Main Two! - BNSF MOW workers replace the track on Main #1 through the station at Fullerton California as a Westbound stack train passes at track speed a mere 6 feet away. ... (more)