This Conrail "tri-light" signal displays a clear signal on the main at MP 62 on the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch. Train 203 is rounding the corner, lighting up the signal and roadway bridge in t... (more)

Even Conrail "tri-light" signals are becoming a vanishing breed. This one dispatches a clear signal to 290 on the main at CP 62 on the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch on a very cold early February ... (more)

Proof that not everything works as it should. This, the westbound B&O CPL guarding the CSX/NS diamond in the distance at Charles Town, WV is only one of two active B&O CPLs in Jefferson County, WV... (more)

The FRED of V86 flashes as the rear of the train exits the siding at Shepherdstown.

Fog or Pea Soup? L415 rolls east through the interlocking as a heavy dense fog settles in the Northern Shenandoah Valley limiting visability to less than a quarter of a mile.

This lone single mast Norfolk and Western CPL signal guards the south approach to the former N&W/B&O now NS/CSX diamond crossing in Charles Town, WV. The signal still serves the railroad as it has... (more)

First train picture of 2013. NS 8340 and it's manifest train gets the proceed signal off the siding at Shepherdstown after waiting for a southbound train to pass.

Northbound Norfolk Southern intermodal 214 lights up the dual bracket Norfolk and Western CPL signals at Shepherdstown, WV on the H Line.

The NW and B&O diamond is just ahead and protecting it are CPLS all around. This is the northbound NW signal and code line which for now still stands. This and other signals like it are in danger ... (more)

Shenandoah Junction, WV was once a major interchange point between the Baltimore and Ohio and Norfolk Western Railroads. It was active until the interchange was moved to Hagerstown fully into the ... (more)

The interlocking at Shepherdstown, WV protected by the N&W CPL Signals is overcast by the moonlit clouds that will soon add to the snow accumulate don the ground. A lone spotlight lights the rails... (more)

A westbound hopper train lights up the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Color Position Light Signal Bridge just west of Hancock on the CSX Cumberland Sub. This along with the Bracket Mast signals in th... (more)

I'd like to dedicate this to my Dad whom I lost 8 years ago to Brain Cancer. Knowing full well he would be spending time track side with my son and I. Probably not at 2am when this was taken. The ... (more)

Northbound NS 290 lights up the air as is approaches Shenandoah Junction just after 4am.

It's after 3am and the dark clear sky sets as the backdrop to the Norfolk and Western CPL signal at Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia as temperature reach below freezing for the first time of the... (more)