A close-up photo of a cold weather rail joint pull apart or a break caused by a frost heave or some other cause. Found on what remains of the DM&IR Woodbridge branch line located NE of Buhl, MN. ... (more)

The mainline rails here are rusty and silent where once Rio Grande trains thundered out of Minturn, Colorado, attacking the steep grade 3% grade over Tennessee Pass. On August 12, 2015, at the eas... (more)

15 years and counting. The dwarf signal at the West End Saluda is dark, as it's been for the past 15 years as the grade sits silently in the North Carolina mountains.

The sun pops out from behind the clouds as CEFX 120 leads westbound 37Q through "downtown" Limestone and past the former Southern Railway Depot on a bitter cold January afternoon.

Forlorn and forgotten

An EMD NW2 switcher for the former Kentucky May Coal Company, #1058, sits forlorn and forgotten, tied down with a few cars in a yard near Jackson, KY on the form... (more)

The Nevada Northern's shuttered and isolated Currie depot lit by moonlight in the blue hour. The pavement of Highway 93 covered the rail crossing a few years ago, leaving the rest of the line cut... (more)

Looming over the Mahanoy Creek Valley, the old Saint Nicholas breaker of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company is still relatively intact in this January, 1992 view. Built in 1932, old S... (more)

An EBT train still sitting where it was parked when the railroad shut down in 1956. The track is the ramp that leads up to the coal bunker for filling the locomotive tenders. All along the EBT mai... (more)

Abandoned remnants of the Staten Island Railway's North Shore Branch. This line saw both freight and passanger service. The last passanger car to run this line was in 1953. Freight continued into ... (more)

Pando siding and the spur near Camp Hale are still tracked, as is most (all?) of the UP Tennessee Pass Line. But if this line is ever brought out of embargo, they're going to have to bring a saw.

Jersey Central's tower and main line sit abandoned at Nesquehoning Junction, located near Jim Thorpe, PA. Allentown- Scranton traffic had been rerouted to the Lehigh Valley line between Lehig... (more)

An eastbound BNSF manifest freight curves under the remains of Milwaukee Road’s curved bridge over the Missouri River at Lombard, Montana, on June 19, 2014.

Fall colors surround the remnants of the Rahway Valley Railroad. This track was abandoned in 1992 and sat dormant for over ten years. A revitalization project was started to bring the line back in... (more)

Where it all began. This was the last tunnel before the N&W reached the promised land to begin accessing the rich coal fields of Southwest Virginia and Southern West Virginia. Near here is where ... (more)

Fall Foliage hides the former Rahway Valley Railroad's 93 foot trestle across the Rahway River, linking Union and Springfield. This structure has not seen a train in nearly 30 years. The trestle w... (more)