A cool winter's night elapses over a location where it seemed time had stood still, and the unstoppable metestasizing of modernization had ignored time. But unfortunately, as expected, innovation ... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Turntable and pit. A Roger Puta Photograph

A long line of stored locomotives sit in Oak Ridge on a beautiful afternoon in rural Tennessee.

A low hanging layer of fog has settled in on the northern Illinois prairie as a green signal is displayed for a westbound on BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision. These searchlights date back to the day... (more)

Train Day! As reflected by the banner, the Hub City Railroad Museum is hosting a train day on May 20 for kids from 3 to 93. The museum is located at the Spartanburg, SC depot and includes a... (more)

A new day breaks on the famed Blue Ridge Grade as threatening clouds roll in from the west overhead the 1940's era CPL's which have sadly now been removed.

DWARFED BY NIGHT One of only a small handful of US&S PL-4 dwarf signals, a favorite of the Norfolk & Western, lights up the ballast at Cloverdale just as it has for nearly eight decades.

The searchlight signals protecting the Missabe Sub have fallen and have been replaced with the newest latest and greatest style signals. These new signals were illuminated a few days prior and ar... (more)

Lightning pops out of a distant thunderhead as the prairie winds carry it across the open plains while the beautiful center of our Milky Way Galaxy rises high above the New Mexico landscape and th... (more)

Red lights in the purple sky. The CPL's at Abingdon no longer stand; leaving this scene without the charm it withheld for nearly a century.

Main Track lined for a Northbound Ethanol being assembled in Albany. This signal always changes hours before the train arrives.

It's the end of the line for this D&H signal tower in the City of Cohoes at M.P. 8.1/8.2. Being one of the last few remaining, it's replacement is being assembled just Northbound passed the Main S... (more)

Y335, returns to Curtis Bay Yard, after switching USALCO, on the Seawall Branch, with a pair of shoving platforms bringing up the rear.

The days of the old N&W CPLs are numbered, as seen here at Webster. In some locations, such as Bonsack, the new "Vader" signals have already gone up and the CPLs come down. In others, su... (more)