At dusk in San Francisco, the "Daylight" drumhead shines proudly on the observation car at the end of the Worlds Fair Daylight. The observation, dressed up in Daylight colors to punctuat... (more)

November 16, 2014- the date which will forever mark the end of an era on Tehachapi. It was on this cool, fall evening that many original, Southern Pacific searchlights saw their last sunset as Uni... (more)

Jewel in the Crown. This stained glass skylight in the concourse of the old City Hall Station is emblematic of the Jewel in the Crown moniker given to this hidden NYC gem. Although this station ha... (more)

The VIA Rail station at Qualicum Beach BC sits quietly in the morning mist. It hasn't seen a passenger train for 2.5 years. There is promise of service resuming in the future, sometime...

Westbound Amtrak 3 pulls into the Galesburg depot.

Private Varnish La Contesa (ex-ATSF) laying over in Sparks, Nevada. It ran up from Oakland on Saturday on 6 and back on Sunday on 5. This was an annual event. A Roger Puta Photograph

High Green For the Last Time The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus train is stretched out through the Virginia fields. The ex-Norfolk & Western color position signal displays a ... (more)

Snow clearance on the Furka pass line of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) (Furka steam railway) . The Steffenbach bridge, which is folded down during the winter to give the avalanches a free ... (more)

In a timeless scene, an operator has just emerged from AC Tower to grab a quick smoke on a cool spring evening between trains. In reality, AC Tower is decommissioned but preserved, and the person ... (more)

Block Operator: Another piece of railroading lost to time is the station agent, or in this case, the block operator. Where train orders were in effect, the block operator would relay instru... (more)

To get a nice, unobstructed view of Baltimore Penn Station, you need to look from way above - lest the 51 foot tall aluminum sculpture entitled "Male/Female" block the way of this 1911 B... (more)

In the early morning hours of a cool spring day, the Norfolk & Western's signature CPL style signals stand guard at control point Dogwood, just outside of Altavista, displaying its 'stop' indicati... (more)

This magnificent Terminal is one of the biggest in Argentina, serving General Roca Line and connected directly to subway C line. Urban and intercity trains departed from here to the south includin... (more)

The rarely-opened Susquehanna River bridge along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor was opened today for two sailboats to pass through out of the Havre de Grace Marine Center.