C&NW's single tracking of the main line in western Iowa had resulted in a real choke point for traffic as coal and intermodal business increased and, with the merger, UP promptly began adding a se... (more)

The changing scene: much has been altered here as two main tracks now prevail and the SP searchlight signals and code lines have fallen. On a pleasant May morning in 2012 a heavy southbound manife... (more)

The Reading Company's Iron Horse Rambles utilizing T-1 class 4-8-4 No. 2124 that began in 1959 were sell out affairs and soon acquired a running mate in No. 2100. Thrilling double-header excursion... (more)

Amidst the pure, exhilarating air of the Montana Rockies, BNSF 7802 West encounters a burst of afternoon sunshine as it exits Shed 10 while gliding down the west side of Marias Pass.

Snarling up the mountain grade, Oak Island-Conway symbol OIPI3 is passing remote MG Interlocking, the limits of which are described by the classic position light signals. Fuji Velvia.

On one of those perfect autumn afternoons the shadows are beginning to encroach upon the right of way at MP241 west of Altoona as a 130 car Conway manifest climbs the east slope of the Alleghenie... (more)

UP 8869 gets underway for North Platte after a crew change in Fremont, NE.

The morning mist is still burning off on a Sunday morning as Conrail's PIAL ( Conway-Allentown) behind a pair of “Altoona builts” comes whistling through Huntingdon, PA with 135 cars in rapid ... (more)

It's just a brief bit of tangent as Conrail's Mail 3 comes out of Allegrippus curve and enters Cold curve while assaulting the east slope on an early November afternoon. Fuji Provia.

ATSF 115 pounds the frog as it brings a westbound intermodal through Maine in the late afternoon. A lot of line side character has been lost to the removal of older signal systems and the code lin... (more)

ATSF 234 comes humming down the grade past the Cosnino Road crossing east of Flagstaff on a bluebird morning. Fuji Velvia.

While working as agent/operator at Minturn I must have been combining job and railfanning on a splendid October day as a coal train arrives to pick up half a dozen or more helpers for a boost over... (more)

An old school brace of EMDs lead an eastbound hotshot along the banks of the Juniata River just east of Newport, PA.

The improbable daily train keeping the lengthy segment of storied narrow gauge line from Antonito, CO to Chama, NM in active service comes steadily chuffing up the long valley as if unencumbered b... (more)

Back when the Bethlehem, PA mill was still producing, symbol BEPI carried its output west toward Conway. The train filled with truck frame traffic from Dana Industries in Reading, PA, followed by ... (more)