IN LOVE . . . with abandoned railroads? As I explained in photo no. 435007, the "sulphite bridge" in Franklin, New Hamp... (more)

The ghost of Conrail i think is all that can be said about this photo.... NS 8363 and NS 6750 lug empty train NS 859 west on former Conrail track with former Conrail/LMS units... really took me ba... (more)

A BNSF Kansas City-Pasco manifest freight, with a cut of Boeing 737 fuselages, rolls through Lombard, Montana. The train is passing the bridge over the Missouri River of the abandoned Milwaukee Ro... (more)

In the 1880s the CB&Q constructed a line form Midland, NE to Cheyenne, WY through the prairies of northeastern Colorado. While the land was advertised as somewhat of an agricultural paradise, the ... (more)

Built for North Western Coal and Navigation (nee Alberta Coal and Railway Company, nee Canadian Pacific) in 1885, this 36" gauge 2-6-0 Mogul was one of three purchased by Canadian Pacific in 1907 ... (more)

The last train left Rhyolite, Nevada in 1914. Ninety-seven years later, the remains of a wood caboose sit across from the former train station in this ghost town. The city only lasted about fiftee... (more)

The Reading Subway II: As early as 1895, space was becoming a premium in Philadelphia so the Reading Company, aka, the Reading & Philadelphia, lowered one of its lines through the city. T... (more)

Ghost Railroading - Hawaii Style The Hawaii Consolidated Railway has been gone for nearly 65 years (abandoned in 1946 following a devastating Tsunami), but relics can still be found if one ... (more)

The Reading Subway:   Back at the turn of the century, in 1895, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad took it's network of tracks and sidings at Pennsylvania Avenue below ground to allow... (more)

At the entrance to the Lehigh Gorge State Park just outside of Jim Thorpe, one can still see what's left of the impressive original CNJ track alignment from White Haven to Jim Thorpe - amazingly c... (more)

The "Pennsylvania Avenue Subway", built at the turn of the last century, provided a sub-grade connection between the Reading and the B&O. It served as an industrial lead for various central Phila... (more)

Built on the banks of the New River, the former C&O South Side Subdivision (correct me if I am wrong) is falling apart and slowly being reclaimed by mother nature.

The soot-stained brick interior of the Blue Ridge Tunnel is seen after a single 30s exposure on the day after Christmas, 2009. To mourn the 65th anniversary of this majestic tunnel's abandonment, ... (more)

One of two tunnels on the "Kanawha & West" railroad. This line was originally owned by the Kanawha & West railroad before being taken over by the New York Central in later years. Infact, a small N... (more)

Gone but not forgotten, this long string of Conrail boxcars rots away on the abandoned tracks at Rose yard.