The MRL 20th Anniversary train heading back to Missoula, tries to keep ahead of threatening skies just minutes before sunset.

An eastbound light power move heads by what is left of the code line through Marion for the Mt. Victory Sub, as CSXT 7392, with its marker lights on, brings up the rear.

The former Monon semaphores at South Romney, Indiana, stand guard in what would be their final winter protecting trains in Indiana. The signals would fall March 25, 2009.

With a z-train hot on its heels (visible in the distance), a BNSF manifest begins its climb out of the San Joaquin Valley towards the summit at Tehachapi.

An eastbound manifest is making good time toward Willmar as it passes an endless line of old telegraph poles.

The BNSF 9647 leads another MAC on empty coal train that is nearing the Mississippi River Bridge and the crossing from Illinois to Iowa at Burlington, IA. The 9647 was the first locomotive to bear... (more)

Smoke (and dust) gets in your eyes! The photographer took advantage of some airborne dust via newly applied ballast to capture this shadowy evening view of a BNSF manifest entering the Red Narrows... (more)

Evening sun highlights the fine lines of the M636 leading the Hornell Turn as it rounds a curve approaching Cuba.

Illuminated by an approaching southbound, this trackage rights train waits for a signal at North Dupo

The eastbound signals for Earville are all red for now as the Mendota Sub has become quiet again. 3 coals loads have just past thru here in the last hour heading to Chicago, IL. These signals prot... (more)

The sun is rising on another day on the Mendota Sub near the small township of Meriden. These classic CB&Q signals litter this subdivision from Galesburg, IL, to Aurora, IL, on the 120 miles of th... (more)

The Galesburg, IL, to Chicago, IL, manifest train starts to pull again at Earlville after waiting for Amtrak's train #380. This train is passing some of the old CB&Q marker that still line this se... (more)

Heading though Marion on the Mt Victory Sub, a westbound train passes a few code line poles which no longer have any code line on them.

On the morning of the famed slideshow "Winterail", a hot Eastbound Z train screams through the flatlands of the San Joaquin Valley, while the tracks are still lined with old ATSF code line.