The beautiful art deco styling of Cincinnati Union Terminal is apparent inside and out. This interior view of the ceiling above the main entrance screams art deco. The interior was restored to its... (more)

The Sentinels of the Prairies

A sunrise look at the famed 'last semaphore' at MP 706. Now gone, these two signals were the easternmost blades on the Raton Subdivision for year... (more)

A Hotel with Heritage: Despite no longer fulfilling its original purpose of serving trains, the venerable DL&W depot in Scranton, Pennsylvania, still maintains a sense of style and panache ... (more)

While on a railfanning trip up in western Nebraska, I came across a pair of old Safetran color-light signals near Hazard. These were a novelty to me, as I'd never seen any before with the lamps a... (more)

CPL ghosts- Heavy morning fog envelops the Norfolk & Western color position lights on Norfolk Southern’s Peavine in southern Ohio. These intermediates near Rarden are like many others along the ... (more)

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight crosses Bridge 62 at Tuscor, Montana, on the morning of July 4, 2021. A beaver lodge has recently been constructed at this location where Swamp Creek empties int... (more)

Completed in 1909, Shields River Valley Railway built a 22-mile line north from a connection on the Northern Pacific at Mission, Montana, to serve the agricultural communities of Grannis, Chadborn... (more)

Guided tour of the Kerzers signal box, which was in operation from 1901 to 2004. The Bruchsal G type system was then replaced by an electronic interlocking that is now remotely controlled from the... (more)

Getting out of St. Regis before dawn, we headed to some of Montana Rail Link’s last Northern Pacific-era semaphores east of town. Magic colors appeared as a rising sun finally peaked over the ta... (more)

1982 photo of the mission-style 1903-built PRR station aside one of the last 4-track stretches of the old PRR Middle Division, with a nice Conrail-blue MW truck parked for the weekend.

'Last Full Moon On The Right'

With the days left of this sentinel of the high desert measured in mere days, one of the final semaphores on the New Mexico Department of Transpor... (more)

The new/old Waumbek Tank. Approximately 1 mile from Marshfield Station, and 1,000 vertical feet higher, we find Waumbek Tank.....or more properly, Waumbek Station. Throughout the history ... (more)

Not a bad neighborhood—but it’s sure noisy at times
Taking up residence behind the background of a Union Switch and Signal Company searchlight signal on the Soo Line’s westbound m... (more)

In the small community of Campbellsburg, Indiana, the (arguably) most intact pair of semaphores on the ex-Monon now CSX Hoosier Subdivision still stand. As evidenced by the shrubs and trees taking... (more)

As another autumn day turns to night on October 1, 2020, the signals light up at West Tuscor, Montana, in response to a couple mouse clicks from the Montana Rail Link dispatcher in Missoula. Not l... (more)