One of the last great train terminals looks resplendent in the colors of a December sunset. The flags are at half-mast for the recent Sandy Hook massacre.

Amtrak train #711, a five-car westbound San Joaquin, clatters across the the WP and then the SP diamonds at Stockton Tower on July 6th, 1976. The diminutive train, heading from Bakersfield... (more)

The American Orient Express takes a break near the Rio Grande passenger station in Salt Lake City. This became my last photo of a train parked at the historic D&RGW depot before all of the trackag... (more)

A late evening rock train crosses the Austin Western interlocking and rumbles by the 1903 depot in downtown Elgin. The segregated depot was built with a ticket office opening to mirror image waiti... (more)

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)

An eastbound group of NS helpers meets a group of westbound helpers at MG Tower. The fallen leaves are kicked up from between the rails as the trailing 6300 heads down the mountain toward Altoona,... (more)

Eastbound manifest glides by the former PRR Hunt Tower at CP Hunt.

The old single-story stucco Santa Fe passenger station in Santa Ana was replaced by this imposing structure - the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center. When the new station, which serves Amtra... (more)

Lonely but intact in a once booming coal train yard, Utah Railway's train depot at Hiawatha feels the heat of a warm July afternoon in 1993. The stucco clad structure was once a joint station when... (more)

A third rail shoe arcs as a pink line train exits the loop bound for 54th/Cermak. Tower 18 has since been completely rebuilt with a more modern, streamlined look.

After meeting southbound coal drag 756 a few miles from here situated at Wirtz, NS 67N is depicted charging uphill into Boones Mill, VA with a empty ethanol train as it rolls past the condemned de... (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)

"Lady Liberty" leads a coal train past Hunt Tower enroute to Baltimore with Mon Valley coal loads. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information, visit more)

One of the responsibilities of a Tower Operator was to inspect passing trains. On a steamy July 23, 2000, CSX Operator Paul Swain, pad and pencil in hand, was inspecting an empty hopper train as ... (more)

As darkness descends upon the quaint community of Rural Retreat, NS 37Q noisily rumbles through town and past the historic depot that O Winston Link made famous years ago.