The old Louisville and Nashville railroad tower stands tall in Baxter, Kentucky, as CSX U400-06 completes a run over from Kingsport, Tennessee. The former L&N tower is surely nearing 100 years old... (more)

A set of Boston & Maine RDCs that has just left the station at Lowell, MA, on its way to Boston hums past Lowell Tower on its way out of town.

Amid a frosting of snow, an MBTA commuter train made up of RDCs pushed by a GP9 on the rear rolls into the stop at Waltham, MA. The operator at Waltham Tower has no orders for the train, so the lo... (more)

Passing through the northwest end of the former Lackawanna Railroad yard complex and by the Delaware & Lackawanna dispatching tower, #26 makes her way up the main line with a "Yard Shuttle&qu... (more)

Metra's Milwaukee heritage unit leads train 2141 west oast Rondout Tower.

GTW 5856 and IC 3107 make for a very nice power set as L501 heads south across the old Milwaukee Road, passing Rondout Tower.

Shay 5 reverses the caboose train past Spaulding Tower.

NS 9147 passes the tower at Alto on beautiful Saturday morning.

Illinois Terminal painted SD70ACe 1072, known as the glow worm, passes JB Tower on its way south down the old EJ&E.

Early morning downtown Altoona for the intermodal parade!

FXE 2046 leads a CP weedsprayer south through Rondout, Illinois, passing the old MILW interlocking tower guarding the MILW-EJE diamond.

A Springfield Terminal SD45 has just emerged from the paint shop at Delaware & Hudson’s East Binghamton engine terminal. A lashup headed by a Susquehanna F45 occupies one of the tracks under the... (more)

Over the Top

20R inches over the top at CP AR (Allegheny Ridge) in Gallitzin, PA. A telephoto does wonders to show off the grade on both sides of the summit here.

Two rare ex-BN SD60M 'Triclops' locomotives pull a manifest freight out of Rockport yard in Cleveland Ohio. Here the train is seen passing the now in danger vintage BE tower in Berea Ohio, where t... (more)