A westbound Milwaukee Road freight crosses the Soo Line diamonds rattling the windows of Duplainville tower on a snowless Wisconsin winter day in February 1984.

Harrington Tower. While building their train, HA-1 passes the historic Harrington Tower in downtown Harrington, DE.

An eastbound freight led by SD50 CNW 7010 rolls by Eau Claire Tower and the Uniroyal tire plant in Eau Claire. The tower will soon be out of service, Uniroyal will close, and CNW will join UP by 1... (more)

An Alden grain empty passes over the UP Mason City Sub (Spineline) and the Mills Tower at Iowa Falls. The train has 7 miles to it's destination where the crew will do power work only and then stag... (more)

A westbound Boston-Washington train speeds nonstop through the station at Old Saybrook, CT, behind Amtrak F40PH 350. In 2017 the tower is gone and trains stop at new high level platforms a couple ... (more)

The conductor leans out of the window to grab orders from the tower operator at West Chicago as the train crosses the triple track Union Pacific.

The consist of Boston-Washington train 175, the Patriot, is still all New Haven, including the two FL9s up front, but a brand new sign on Kingston tower (formerly known as SS 133) indicates that ... (more)

The morning mist is still burning off on a Sunday morning as Conrail's PIAL ( Conway-Allentown) behind a pair of “Altoona builts” comes whistling through Huntingdon, PA with 135 cars in rapid ... (more)

BN 7813 heads north past the tower in Saunders, WI in May of 1986.

The celebratory inaugural run of Amtrak's Cape Codder weekend service between New York and Hyannis, MA, pauses at Buzzards Bay behind flag-flying F40PH 349. This train ran seasonally in various co... (more)

Passing the preserved AC tower on Sunday morning of Summerail weekend

SOO 1003 puts on a nice show as it heads east by Rondout Tower and the Milwaukee Road searchlights. 1003 is enroute back home to Hartford, WI after attending a fundraiser for the Shriner's Childre... (more)

On a clear winter's day, SP 9805 East passes Stockton Tower. The train is a relatively short manifest headed for Roseville. Note that only two tracks remain on SP's right of way, where there used ... (more)

Freshly painted MILW SD40-2 #142 storms past the tower at Lake on Milwaukee's south side in October of 1984. There is a fairly steep grade here that can bring a heavy freight to its knees.

Candy apple red SOO GP9 2553 leads a short a transfer past Argo Tower in Summit IL in June 1994. Train is on IHB/B&OCT rails about to cross the IC/GM&O.