Stormy Searchlight Sunset- One of the last installations of searchlight signals on the Union Pacific system stands guard over Hermosa, lit for oncoming traffic.

A pair of CN 60s gun it up the hill at Brunette, with a transfer for Lynn Creek.

Amtrak train #3 flies down the former Santa Fe towards Albuquerque, NM. Seen here passing history on a pole, the Southwest Chief doesn't mess around. Also note, the westbound semaphore for the mai... (more)

Cutting through an icy dawn
It’s early morning on a cold January 30, 2005, as an eastbound Union Pacific coal train descends the grade of the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision mainline in free... (more)

CSX #3232 leads a westbound empty coal hopper train through Thurmond, WV on the spring morning of May 18, 2021. The town was founded by W.D. Thurmond in 1873 when the former Civil War Confederate ... (more)

CSX train D705 works its way west with a solo gevo as it passes under a classic C&O cantilever signal in Green Oak, MI.

Cruising through the Missouri River bottom lands east of Kansas City, NS 9055 West is on joint track with the BNSF as it passes Camden, MO and its wig wag crossing signal.

Amtrak train 280, an "Empire Service" heads southbound past the classic "pitchfork" searchlight signals at CP 90 in Barrytown, NY with a train bound for New York's Penn Station... (more)

Most of my pictures have signals in them, as the structures and signals themselves were defining elements of a particular railroad's environment such as we'll never see again. BN 6707 is getting a... (more)

A pair of SD40-2s lead LSRC Z127 south on the Saginaw Subdivision past the searchlight signals in Grand Blanc, Michigan.

A pair of Lake State SD50s lead Z127 south past the searchlight signals at South Holly.

NS 905 passing the ex N&W PL signals at Dogwood in Altavista, VA. This line does not get many westbound trains, but when it does they are usually something interesting.

Lake State Railway train Z127 has a pair of EMD SD50s for power as they notch up passing under the ex C&O searchlight signals at south McGrew.

CSX train Q352-04 splits the classic B&O CPL signals in the small community of Pierceville on the Indiana Subdivision with a classic EMD SD40-2 leader. Even though the 8801 is a former Conrail uni... (more)

Birmingham Southern 82 leads at the Calera Depot.