Approach Medium As the clouds race past at the bottom, an equally fast approaching Q619 lights up the XXB 123.3 as it is informed via the speed signal indication that they will be meeting ... (more)

After being tied down earlier in the day, the combined power of A012 and W073 sit quietly in Notasulga as the wind howls and ... (more)

Not in Kansas anymore Built for The J in 1970 and usually seen roaming around Lake Michigan, this fine product from EMD now finds itself miles from its former home in Illinois and as one o... (more)

Trendsetter As a full moon starts to rise in the east, alien bees illuminate the GRWR 3086. Clearly this GP40’s latest paint says the unit came from the Southern Pacific, but lying benea... (more)

Strangers in the night A flagman signals the night sky with his lantern before dismounting and walking along the tracks while the silhouette of his conductor is seen in the cupola of a form... (more)

One of only two survivors from the Illinois Central 2500 class of steam locomotives, the IC 2542 still looks as good as the day when she was placed on this display track back in the summer of 2000... (more)

A full moon shines overhead as the lead unit of NS 141 patiently waits for traffic ahead of it to clear before finally getting a chance to head west out of Irondale.

The setting sun brings to end another day on the railroad as one of the newest signals for the only CTC installation on the former Western Railway of Alabama mainline stands tall against the impen... (more)

Eternally Approach At the 84.5 milepost on the NS Anniston District, one can still find a somewhat active semaphore alerting northbound trains to “approach distant” the interlocking wi... (more)

The locomotives from ballast train A015 layover in the Notasulga siding on the shortest day of the year during the "blue hour" as a CSX employee finally shuts the front door and exits down the lon... (more)

With another day of unloading newly rolled Continuous Welded Rail along the Western Railway of Alabama complete, the mother slug set of A012 idle into the “blue hour” as it begins to show its ... (more)

Lunar
The always celestial looking “restricting aspect” is illuminating tonight on a classic General Railw... (more)

Orion’s Switcher
With the “blue hour” upon us and Orion looming overhead, the Calera & Shelby 2022 rests next to one of the Museum’s attractions, The Boone Library. Residing ... (more)

Idling on the West Point siding, A012 and its trainload of newly rolled continuous welded rail sit and wait as the end of another November day comes to a close under the “blue hour” sky. In t... (more)

Seaboard System
With the merger of the Seaboard Coast Line with the L&N and all the other railroads that made up the Family Lines System complete on December 1982, the Seaboard System... (more)