Just out of Waterloo on it's run to Chicago

On the last leg of it’s journey to become capable of soaring through those clouds, this Boeing 737-900 becomes the last fuselage to travel over the Wilburton Trestle, on the last revenue train.... (more)

Illinois Railnet CF 7 # 3 is crawling across a timber trestle north of Spring Valley, Illinois on its trip to Zearing and interchange with BNSF. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Small railroad, really big bridge, part II. Two Franklin Industrial Minerals B23-7's have the morning train in tow for the Norfolk Southern interchange in Rockwood. Getting to this spot involved a... (more)

Y121, led by 6134, rumbles slowly across the historic Rabbit River trestle after its weekly run to the Hamilton Farm Bureau. Six inches of fresh snow the day before provided for a classic wintry ... (more)

SP GP9 #3377 is leading the Santa Cruz local as it crosses the trestle over the town of Capitola. The train's ultimate destination is Davenport, 10 miles North of Santa Cruz. Also in the consist a... (more)

First snowfall of the season

A rare sight on the BNSF today as SRY ran a detour train via the BNSF New West Sub and BC Rail Port sub due to a washout on their line. Another interesting note is the replacement of the bridge st... (more)

Mixed train stops at Camp Creek...

With more and more of the former SP trestles being replaced with modern modular concrete spans, SD60M 2343 looks almost classy leading autoracks over Youngs Creek at restricted speed at 1241. A t... (more)

It is a bittersweet story for the 450-foot-long, 60-foot high timber Lake Matawan Trestle. NJT, who owns the ex-CNJ Freehold Branch planned on tearing down the trestle in 1998 to prevent lawsuits ... (more)

Dormant since 1984, the [first] Lake Matawan Trestle was originally built by the Freehold and Atlantic Highlands Railroad in 1877 which later came under ownership of the CNJ and ultimately, Conrai... (more)

The Ft. Smith Dodger heads northeast to FT.Smith just outside of Poteau, OK.

BN's Hutch Local from Lyndale Jct. to Hutchinson crosses the Arcola Bridge along Lake Minnetonka on a frosty Nov. 25, 1975. The line has been abandoned, but the bridge remains without rails.