On November 17th, 2014 the final chapter of Union Switch & Signal searchlight signals on Tehachapi was closed when the last signals between Warren and Mojave, on the eastern slope, were retired in... (more)

A stretch of rail and and an abandoned signal are all that's left of the former Interpace spur track. This spur used to serve Interpace Corp and was later used as a storage track for maintenance e... (more)

After I got done shooting a G888 at Masonville, I waited around for a lite power move behind them. As the wait carried on the sun barely popped out from the clouds as big thunderstorms dumped tons... (more)

Some 11.8 miles off the Iron Range Subdivision on the DM&IR Wales branch is where they crossed the Cloquet River at Jordan. Based on the condition of the bridge and the sign now posted this is the... (more)

A diamond sits in the woods on an abandoned portion of Conrail's Reformatory Branch. One track connected the CNJ (later Conrail) Reformatory Branch with the former PRR/PC (now NJ Transit) Coast Li... (more)

A small wooden station is one of the few remaining buildings in the ghost town of Currie, Nevada.

A plethora of historic equipment sits at the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati in Latonia, Kentucky. Among the collection is PRR Observation, the Metropolitan View (bottom right) and B&O "... (more)

A passenger / inspection train being operated for the Lexington Group heads down Proctor Hill towards Duluth, MN on the way to Two Harbors, MN. Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Business Car ... (more)

West Green River Dispatcher Dick Christensen is updating the train graph at the 4th Subdivision desk in Cheyenne. Christensen was the long time second trick (3-11pm) dispatcher for the railroad be... (more)

The Cass Scenic Railroad deadline on a warm humid Summer night.

The old dwarf signal still guards the West end of the siding at Connelly Springs, NC. The way the signals are set up is rather interesting, as the signal governing the mainline displays a "clear" ... (more)

Waiting on the Chief……silhouetted against the timeless light of the moon a pair of Union Switch & Signal intermediate semaphores stand guard over BNSF's Raton Subdivision in northern New Mexic... (more)

Where are the rails? The double-tracked electrified Columbia Branch has almost sunk into the ground by the late 70s, as a short local heads upgrade through the weeds to Lancaster.

We're inside the long-gone Union Junction Tower at 2:44 p.m., with the op facing the Union Switch & Signal electro-pneumatic Model 14 interlocking machine, installed in 1935. The tower, built in ... (more)

We're about to climb the stairs at Union Junction and pay a visit to the op at shift change. Standing by the tower is the late H. A. Wilgis, who ran the restored GG-1 No. 4935 on its first revenu... (more)