The X5 looks good with a fresh coat of paint and on home rails.

Towers to different eras
Sitting forlornly amongst the growing soybeans of a farmer’s field is a concrete coaling tower on the abandoned Chicago and North Western “Ridgerunner Lineâ... (more)

Sunrise at J Tower. The railroad starts another day with a golden sunrise and clear skies. Soon the excited children will be staring in wonder at a real live steam engine as they ride the train to... (more)

Alaska Railroad's Anchorage Yard basically sits between downtown Anchorage and Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson. Every other year the base hosts Artic Thunder Air Show featuring among others the Th... (more)

Penn Central crews exchange greetings on a hot July night. This scene is actually part of a night photo session at the Danbury Railway Museum.

A bull elk crosses Canadian National’s main line at the east end of the Snaring River Bridge at Henry House, Alberta, on July 19, 2011.

A passing MU train adds a dash of light on this cold winter's evening, 4 nights before Christmas 2008. Valley Tower controls the Long Beach, Far Rockaway, West Hempstead, Atlantic (Between Hall an... (more)

After over a day of rain in a low lying area, this CSX lead track from Oak Island Yard to a local scrap industry is flooded. All that is seen is a switch stand and the rail head.

1918-1966 Rains was one of the closely settled coal camps that ran together and was mined by Liberty Fuels. There was a time this area north of helper produced 300 coal cars a day of coal from se... (more)

Since my previous barge photo was so well received I thought I would upload another perspective. With one track loaded already the barge crew shoves another track onto the barge. Notice the tight ... (more)

The impressive concourse of Dresden main station by night, with leaving and maneuvering trains.

The massive yard complex that is CP's Pigs Eye Yard.

The Gainesville depot sits under fading summer storm light on a humid June evening. Built in 1910 along the Southern Railway Washington to Atlanta mainline, the station served trains such Crescent... (more)

At 4:40am, the northbound signals at Ayersville, milepost 552.0 of the Piedmont Division, show all stop for southbound manifest 348 to pass through. These Southern Railway signals are on their ver... (more)