CP business car "Van Horne" carries the tail marker on the Holiday Train.

The former DW&P railroad depot near the end of Chestnut Street in Virginia, MN is in the fog from the yet unfrozen Silver Lake on a cold December evening. A nearby detector from a northbound CN f... (more)

The prairie sun sets during harvest time on the MPLI (ex-M&St.L Railway) at Fairfax, MN.

Crews work to clear a major derailment in Two Harbors yard a day after a loaded ore train ran away down the steep grade into the yard. Two crew members jumped and sustained injuries but are thankf... (more)

Here's an old relic. The Duluth and Iron Range Railroad or D&IR was formed in 1874 by Charlemagne Tower to haul iron ore from the Minnesota Iron Co. in Tower, Minnesota, to the new Lake Superior p... (more)

On the east side of Joliet around the turn of the century, and in the heyday of railroads, there were four rail yards within one mile of each other. The Elgin Joliet & Eastern, The Michigan Centr... (more)

It is a star filled night in northern Missouri along the Marceline Sub. Sign of changes are still evident as new and old signals stand along the right of way for now. These ex-Santa Fe cantilever ... (more)

Sunset is just about to disappear as night sets in in northern Missouri. A set of crossovers in middle of now where along the Marceline Sub at MP 276, is Gorin. New signal have been cut in to repl... (more)

Hmm... I'll bet if you cut the tree down, counted the number of rings, you'd know roughly how long it's been since the last freight car rolled over these rails.

Stumped? Well, don't get the ... (more)

An eastbound NS hotshot is lined up main #1 at Port Clinton, CP 253. Ex-New York Central signal bridges can still be found along the Chicago Line from Chicago to Cleveland.

An era is starting to come to an end on the ex-Santa Fe mainline. With the upgrade to the signal system for upcoming PTC, BNSF has been replacing alot of older signals along their network. Here ex... (more)

On a cold fall evening in Gridley, California, a hot southbound manifest flies past the old Southern Pacific Searchlights located along the Valley Subdivision.

Some of the exceptionally flat terrain in Northeast South Dakota can give way to some exceptionally brilliant sunsets. Much like this one lighting up sky just west of Aberdeen on BNSF's Mobridge S... (more)

Something you don't get to see everyday at Fullerton. A worker watches as another slices rail off Main #2 at the station. This creates a fantastic show of sparks, flying in all directions. Many p... (more)

The pointless arrow, aka the chevron logo, is still displayed above the entrance to the first station just north of Washington DC. Being protected from the elements, it has aged rather well.