With paper from Greene to Blake, RUPO with CSXT 2548 - MEC 507 - MEC 345 and forty cars rolls west past the old (now out of service) MEC searchlight as they exit the Rumford Branch and enter the F... (more)

Pitch Fork. The New York Central searchlights on the pitchfork at CP 94 in Barrytown, New York lasted in to the modern era and were by this time unique on the Empire/Hudson Line, but have s... (more)

CSX Q643 southbound splits the former Monon semaphores at Romney, IN, 09/20/2003. Nikon F100, Nikkor 300mm f4 AF lens, Fujichrome Velvia. I remember chasing this train from Lafayette Junction with... (more)

4 geeps split the approach signals to D&S Jct. on their way to Lehigh Cement. The train is on the AD Line to Oxford after using the wye just above here, while the adjacent track is the CSX Joyland... (more)

A yard job works all day at CSX Parsons Yard (ex-Chesapeake & Ohio).

VIA Train Number 2 Is Ducking Under The Signal Bridge At Braid On The Beginning Of Its Cross Country Journey.

West Bound Manifest on the sunset route of Union Pacific. It feels good to see a different type of signal masts for a change.

Much of the railroad scene has lost its appeal to me with the sameness or removal of signal systems, the prevalence of container boxes in lieu of rolling stock and the bloated merged systems that ... (more)

Westbound Norfolk Southern intermodal 23M hustles across the Pittsburgh Line behind an SD70 and an SD80MAC as it passes through Port Royal, Pennsylvania past PRR position light signals and under t... (more)

Norfolk Southern's "Nickel Plate Road" Heritage Locomotive #8100 leads train 377 westbound through a rain shower at CP Bon Air in Childersburg, AL.

Out of the haze, a westbound helper set heads to Farm for another shove. On a good day a haze remained in the tunnel from lots of trains and if a little east wind was blowing in Coopers the ghost... (more)

A Norfolk Southern SD70M-2 leads a westbound manifest freight over the UP Geneva Subdivision as it rolls through River Forest, Illinois on its way to Proviso Yard. A Union Pacific GP15 slowly ease... (more)

Remember when there were position light intermediates on the Middle Division? I remember... Here an eastbound NS oil train blows through the crossing in the bright winter sun.

Amtrak P238 splits Auto 121 on the Hudson Line

A quartet of Kansas City Southern GP's are on the point of CPKC LWY101, making a special move of M1 Abrams tanks from Alliance to Wylie after picking them up from BNSF. Running east through Garlan... (more)