There are some cool relics along this old Rock Island mainline to Colorado Springs. A lot of the code line has been taken down along with some of the ABS signals. Here east of Brewster, along old ... (more)

A high load on a depressed-center flat car is transported in a short Santa Fe train, led by GP303211 (ex-ATSF 1211). The two tank cars may be there as buffer cars. (La Mirada California – Augu... (more)

Burlington Northern “Expediter” train 46 flies eastbound toward Somonauk, Illinois, on the frigid winter day of February 17, 1990. Leading the train is BN GP39M No. 2800, rebuilt from CB&Q GP3... (more)

ATSF 920 and EMC E1 number 6 lead train 21, a five car El Capitan doing 35 MPH on the east side of Raton Pass near Starkville Colorado, in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

Eastbound NS 146 passes by MP 212, 7 miles east of Logansport, IN during the afternoon of 10/28/90. Kodachrome 64.

ATSF F7 311 leads 15 cars at 50 MPH on the Joint Line, south of Castle Rock, in 1951. Otto Conrad Perry photo from my collection.

A two car Interurban is seen at Goff Junction, on the South Shore Line, at approximately 0900 hrs.

Amtrak's eastbound Toronto-New York Niagra Rainbow headed up by a pair of E-8s passes under the Marion branch bridge over CP15 in Newark, NY in November 1978. The Marion branch bridge was removed ... (more)

The WE Medora signals light up as J780 enters the block. This was the last intact siding between Seymour and Mitchell...but it has since been torn out. All the trappings of a classic line are here... (more)

CSX Q216 heads east towards Cincinnati with a SD70MAC in charge along the former B&O. The old pole line adds a little nostalgia to an earlier era.

Let's take a pole..... In a case of who's railroad is it, UP 5284 leads a NS unit through Mt. Pleasant, WI on CP's C&M Subdivision on 5/9/22. Pole lines have become increasingly rare these days, b... (more)

The pole line is still evident as a Hiawatha Service trains head south on Main One through Caledonia.

I surprised how busy the UP coal mainline to the PRB was in the 2 hours we were around it. 5-6 empties chased each other west out of North Platte towards South Morrill. As we worked east the scene... (more)

No meets today. Indeed, meets are scarce these days on this portion of the Indiana Sub, with J780 having the line all to itself here, passing the only intact siding left between Mitchell and Seymo... (more)

During the sweet golden hour, an eastbound autorack train NS 244 pass by a long abandoned pole line east of Wawaka, Indiana on the NS Chicago Line. A lone insulator is still attached to the conduc... (more)