When heavy snow comes to the CN at Waterloo, Maintance Crews get the jet blower out to clean switches around Waterloo. Here "the jet" cleans the switches above the 4th Street crossovers. This blow... (more)

A Berkshire Scenic Railway trainman signals the head end with his lantern while setting up for the BSRM's first Night Photo Shoot in 2006. Canon EOS 20D, Canon 70-200mm f/4L

The gritty textures of a Canadian Pacific Railway switchlock on a small trackside structure at the grade crossing at Brisco, British Columbia, on the afternoon of July 17, 2011.

Highball, Duplainville!
Amtrak No. 8, the Empire Builder, cruises by Duplainville Tower in July 1984, with Milwaukee Road Skytop Cedar Rapids carrying the markers. The tower stood guard... (more)

It's a three-for shot! The 6:38 run waits for it's time as an express screams by on Main 2 while another inbound waits to crossover to main 2..

At a rural grade crossing west of Earlville, Illinois, on Burlington Northern’s Chicago-Galesburg line, a Kenworth-powered 18-wheeler watches BN train No. 60 slams by with trailers speeding towa... (more)

On March 30th, 2010, CN 376 derailed as it went over the crossovers at Liverpool. If anyone has more info on the accident please feel free to leave a comment! News story: http://www.cp24.com/cn... (more)

On March 30th, 2010, CN 376 derailed as it went over the crossovers at Liverpool. From what I've been told, the derailment was caused by the ex-GO units behind the power. If anyone has more info o... (more)

Lehigh Valley's carfloat terminal was just north of Jersey Central's Communipaw ferry terminal. Across the Hudson River, the World Trade Center (North Tower) is under construction.

Inspecting 416
A Canadian National maintenance-of-way foreman waits for the passage of trains Nos. 416 and 412 before he can get some track-and-time to work on the grade crossing at Ped... (more)

As the DM&IR name is faded out and into the history books by CN, a Wisconsin Central lock shows up on the former Missabe Road to protect the signal box at Ramshaw where the DW&P Rainy Sub crossed ... (more)

Amtrak Capital train # 742 lights up this old SP signal bridge that has new UP hooded heads on it. This signal bridge is in a hard to get location for photographing, but after looking around for ... (more)

On the west end of the BP's Du Bois Yard is an old tower from the days where there use to be a diamond between the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway and the Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad.... (more)

A dormant oak tree soaks up the springtime sunshine as boxcars (and a lone tank car) on a Southern Pacific freight march past in the background near Tunnel 1 on Tehachapi Pass at Caliente, Califor... (more)

A Canadian National northbound freight is setting out cars at the north end of Duplainville siding on a snowy January 12, 2012. Whatever the weather, railroaders are a hardy bunch; and have to be ... (more)