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Railroad Pole Lines
Photos showing the railroad pole lines. The pole line used four basic electrical circuits - telegraph, telephone, signaling, and power. Modern technologies of fiber optics, microwave, radio, satellite, and computers have been replacing the pole lines.
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Photo ID: 712346

Due to problems with the code-line Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief is running on restrictive signals between Springer and Colmor. As a wild weather system moved across northern New Mexico a bri... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P42DC
Location: Robinson, New Mexico, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 159
Train ID: A3 1 03
Photo Date: October 04, 2019


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By: Ryan Slaton

Added: Oct 09, 2019

Views: 2,487
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Favorited: 11
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Photo ID: 704587

A loaded coal train makes its way through the farms and fields of the Colorado flatlands, as it heads down the BNSF Pueblo Subdivision, which is former Missouri Pacific territory. This stretch of ... (more)

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Boone, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 5989
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 20, 2019


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By: Jake Maiello

Added: Jul 24, 2019

Views: 1,731
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Favorited: 6
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Photo ID: 681409

The stretch of track between Greenland and Palmer Lake has some of the best scenery for rail photography, including old telegraph poles that still use the glass insulators.

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)
Location: Palmer Lake, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 4556
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: December 13, 2018


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By: BUFFIE

Added: Dec 21, 2018

Views: 1,000
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Favorited: 2
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Photo ID: 680612

The sun sets on Northwest Ohio as a rack train races south along the route of the former C&O, which, at the time of this photo, was still marked with C&O signal bridges and active codeline. They ... (more)

Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Longley, Ohio, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 3442
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: August, 2017


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By: Will Jordan

Added: Dec 14, 2018

Views: 2,467
Comments: 0

Favorited: 19
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Photo ID: 678079

BNSF 7418 leads the Q-RICALT at Sandcut, CA on Union Pacific's Mojave Sub.

Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE ES44DC
Location: Tehachapi Pass, California, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 7418
Train ID: Q-RICALT
Photo Date: May 06, 2013


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By: Darren Megowan

Added: Nov 20, 2018

People's Choice 1

Views: 8,280
Comments: 5

Favorited: 71


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Photo ID: 674924

A 2 hour late Amtrak #4 'The Southwest Chief' starts its climb into the mountains of southern Colorado leaving the New Mexico desert behind.

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P42DC
Location: Raton, New Mexico, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 14
Train ID: AMTK #4
Photo Date: October 06, 2018


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By: Kyle Yunker

Added: Oct 23, 2018

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Views: 7,429
Comments: 8

Favorited: 76
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Photo ID: 672222

An uphill BNSF train passes the 12 derailed boxcars just before tunnel 2 in the Tehachapi Mountains. A few telegraph poles were brought down too, unfortunately.

Railroad: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Locomotive: GE ES44DC
Location: Caliente, California, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 7508
Train ID: unknown
Photo Date: September 29, 2018


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By: Arne Brown

Added: Sep 30, 2018

Views: 5,918
Comments: 6

Favorited: 16
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Photo ID: 669052

Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief No. 4 catches this late summer sunset outside of La Junta, Colo., on its eastward journey across the original Santa Fe mainline toward Dodge City, Kan., a... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P42DC
Location: Bloom, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 2
Train ID: AMTK 4
Photo Date: August 20, 2018


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By: Chase Gunnoe

Added: Aug 31, 2018

Photo of the Week
People's Choice 2

Views: 9,596
Comments: 5

Favorited: 72
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Photo ID: 663286

Code line for miles as Q272 makes it way east towards Cincinnati passing the B&O CPL's just outside of Nebraska.

Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Nebraska, Indiana, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 3052
Train ID: Q272
Photo Date: July 24, 2016


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By: John Puda

Added: Jul 05, 2018

Views: 1,834
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Favorited: 11
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Photo ID: 657265

CP GP7 8418 and a pair of GP9s are smoking up the valley with their train brakes as the westbound rail train finishes its descent into Field, BC along the Kicking Horse River.

Railroad: Canadian Pacific Railway
Locomotive: EMD GP7
Location: Field, British Columbia, Canada
Locomotive #: CP 8418
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 05, 1978


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By: Bill Edgar

Added: May 07, 2018

People's Choice 2

Views: 9,659
Comments: 3

Favorited: 58


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Photo ID: 655910

A southbound auto rack train No.Q276-11 is pulling down past the signal at CP Turnpike to make a reverse move back into CSX’s Walbridge Yard to make a set off of auto racks, while a mixed freigh... (more)

Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: GE AC4400CW
Location: Walbridge, Ohio, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 474
Train ID: CSX Q276-11
Photo Date: March 11, 2018


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By: Tyler B. Pate

Added: Apr 24, 2018

Views: 2,021
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Favorited: 4
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Photo ID: 652218

C&O searchlight signals and a mostly intact code line stand guard at CP Turnpike at the south end of CSX's yard in Walbridge. A single ET44AC has pulled clear of the interlocking and waits to back... (more)

Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: GE ET44AC
Location: Walbridge, Ohio, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 3423
Train ID: CSX Q241
Photo Date: March 10, 2018


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By: mtnclimberjoe

Added: Mar 20, 2018

Views: 2,716
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Favorited: 8
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Photo ID: 652124

A pair of QUBE Logistics QRX diesel electrics lead a short container transfer back toward Junee after working Harefield in southern New South Wales.

Railroad: QUBE Logistics
Locomotive: QUBE QRX Class
Location: Harefield, New South Wales, Australia
Locomotive #: QBX 003
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February 12, 2018


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By: Chase Gunnoe

Added: Mar 19, 2018

Views: 2,222
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Favorited: 4
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Photo ID: 646153

Semaphores, code-lines, and the Chief...Not to much has changed at Chapelle, New Mexico over the decades. Sure the fabled 'Route of the Chiefs' is now owned by BNSF and the last Chief standing is ... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P42DC
Location: Chapelle, New Mexico, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 157
Train ID: A3 1 09
Photo Date: September 10, 2016


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By: Ryan S.

Added: Jan 28, 2018

Views: 2,691
Comments: 3

Favorited: 16
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Photo ID: 641023

Other than a few scraggly trees and old code line poles, the landscape around Risk, Illinois, is pretty flat and bare. With 25 empty potash cars in tow, Bloomer Line GP10's 7591 and 7504 head sout... (more)

Railroad: Bloomer Line
Locomotive: EMD GP10
Location: Risk, Illinois, USA
Locomotive #: 7591
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: December 07, 2017


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By: Casey Thomason

Added: Dec 13, 2017

Views: 2,084
Comments: 0

Favorited: 9
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