Rio Grande Heritage

The lines of our heritage hang loosely connected to infinity; relics from the last century scattered and disconnected. The stories these code line poles cou... (more)

Riders on the Storm

In the moments before a violent thunderstorm unleashes its precipitation the clouds take on this dark ominous appearance. Hail stones and large rain dro... (more)

After dropping a car on a customer siding in Middleport, New York, the Falls Road Railroad crew is tied back on to their train. The engineer applies the throttle and the pair of Alco's let out a p... (more)

With code line still standing in pristine condition, Amtrak's Southwest Chief rolls through the open plains of Colorado towards Trinidad and Raton Pass

CSX J780 rolls past the out-of-service siding in Brownstown, which still sports a B&O bracket signal.

A westbound Southern Pacific piggyback train passes Redwood Jct. Tower sometime in the 1950s. This image on SP's San Francisco Subdivision was taken by the late John E. Shaw, Jr.

Like a scene from the history books, Amtrak's Southwest Chief races past the classic code lines and semaphore signals at ESS Chapelle. Passengers aboard the Chief are witnessing incredible scenery... (more)

The Southwest Chief splits a pair of semaphore signals as it navigates the tight twists and turns along BNSF's Glorieta Subdivision. In 2020, the semaphores along this route were the last ... (more)

Reading and Northern PIME kicks up freshly fallen snow alongside the code line along the former Lehigh Valley Mainline westbound to Mehoopany.

BNSF 8007 (ES44C4) leads a ballast train past the old telegraph lines that lead to Palmer Lake, Colorado.

CSX Q504-04 runs east through some morning sleet on as its about to slow down and set off eight cars in the siding just east of here. The three pack of SD40-2's, code line, and B&O CPL's made it f... (more)

NS Norfolk Southern heritage unit leads container train NS 21Z westbound passing MP 388 intermediate NYC signals on the NS Chicago Line.

Wagons East!!!

For years, I've joked with fellow coworker and RailPictures contribuitor Elijah Cross about getting a very long telephoto lens and shooting the intermediate pai... (more)

CSXT 2555 comes into Medora, Indiana splitting old B&O CPL's in the Indiana countryside.

Bloomer Line Veteran leads corn train At 64 years old, Bloomer Line 7549 South blasts past old code line alongside the former Wabash mainline that once hosted the streamliner "Blue Bird&quo... (more)