We're about to climb the stairs at Union Junction and pay a visit to the op at shift change. Standing by the tower is the late H. A. Wilgis, who ran the restored GG-1 No. 4935 on its first revenu... (more)

A southbound passenger extra with a rare SDL39 hits the former Milwaukee Road diamonds at Duplainville as the headlight of a WC freight waits in the background for a signal to return to home rail... (more)

Travelling north, this Chicago & North Western manifest passes Broadway tower in Green Bay, Wisconsin. After clearing a grade crossing of the street with the same name, the train will be in C&NWâ... (more)

Port Tower's days are numbered, as the eastbound Broadway Limited passes by. No. 400 was built by EMD for Amtrak in August, 1985, and eventually ended up on the Agence métropolitaine de transpor... (more)

Soo 2405 is on the newly constructed wye at Duplainville, WI in August of 1987. The tower is long gone since this photo was taken.

A practice used by very few is still a tradition on the nation's busiest commuter railroad. Long Island train 1701 stops at Nassau Tower to pick up orders about a track condition further west at N... (more)

The Afternoon Hiawatha. A Roger Puta Photograph

A trio of C&NW Geeps brings the transfer run from Jones Island past St. Francis Tower. The tower used to govern the junction of the passenger line and the freight by-pass in Milwaukee. Today, the ... (more)

GE23's crew heads back to Inman Yard, "engine light," after dropping inbound autoracks at East Point which came in earlier on train 275. NS AC44C6M 4001, one of the two original DC propulsion to A... (more)

CR 6055 brings a piggyback train past Tower MO near Cresson, PA in June of 1992.

A Canadian Cab C44-9WL leads a southbound Q-Train passed the still man operated JB Tower just as its about to pound the Union Pacific mainline.

Another AC4400CW in commuter service - a scene that will one day soon become Brigadoonish. The AC4400CWs are scheduled to all be gone at the end of October. This one is on a train to Oceanside pas... (more)

After having some engine issues around Johnstown, 10N came up to Cresson, stopped their train, cut the power away, and wyed the power at Gallitzin and put NS 1703, a SD45-2, in the lead of the tra... (more)

With helpers ahead of the road power and two more on the rear, a 137 car westbound manifest is 21st of 22 trains in four hours at MG, back when it was still a part-time open office. The air lines ... (more)