Santa Fe high-priority "Super C" blows past the tower protecting the crossing with Southern Pacific's Sunset Route at Colton on Boxing Day 1972.
Illuminated CPLs brighten a dark night at QN Tower in Washington DC. This classic B&O tower closed shortly after this photo was taken.
Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 passes Hobart Tower just south of Los Angeles after dropping the freight cars it pulled from San Bernardino on January 12, 1999.
UP GP30s 842, 851 and 837 head south to the harbor as they cross the Santa Fe’s Third Subdivision at Hobart Tower on July 27, 1975.
BN SD40-2 6805 and SP U33C 8586 head an eastbound across the Santa Fe mainline at Colton Tower, Colton, CA on Christmas Eve, 1976. Mid-train are three SSW SD45T-2 helpers and a BN radio control c... (more)
UP GP30 829 leads a “Fast Forty” SD40-2 and a pair of “Centennials” (DDA40X diesels) eastbound across the SP Sunset Route at Colton Tower.
Taken with Minolta X-700, with two slave flashies, exposure unrecorded, I guess this shot would be my tribute to the great one, O. Winston Link.
AMT 115 with Toyota Tundra advertising pulls past Tower 55 in Fort Worth. The ad campaign ends December 31st. No telling when repaint will be done.
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CP/D&H Train #265 heads west out of Conrail's Oak Island Yard with a matched set of Soo Line SD40-2s. While the interlocking still exists, the tower is now gone.
Big UP waits as the SP's GP9 crosses......
The Colton Tower is long gone
The way they used to run railroads: train orders, towers and cabooses.
