NS Brooklyn District runs from Decatur south towards St. Louis. One of the cooler ex-Wabash signals are these bracket signals that protect both ends of the Midway siding outside of Raymond, IL. It... (more)

This CSXT line has a few of these ex-New York Central small searchlight signals left between Marion and Mt. Victory. The signal projects don't seem to be bothering this line between Marion and Ind... (more)

AT&SF Crane 199793 A Roger Puta Photograph

Almost 19 years later, on August 14, 2016, Union Pacific's Tennessee Pass Subdivision sits silent, waiting for the next train that will probably never come. This is looking west at the west end of... (more)

Night time sets in over the city as a BNSF grain train knocks down the signal at Wichita South Junction.

The Canisteo Pit is a large lake formed in a complex of 19 inactive mine pits located immediately north of Coleraine, Bovey and Taconite in Itasca County, Minnesota along the BNSF Casco Sub. When... (more)

The remnants of S539 lay strewn about the middle of downtown Falmouth on the former L&N KY after derailing 10 hours earlier.

A seldom seen view inside the tight confines of the rotary dumping shed at the large MERC coal dock in Superior as a BNSF coal train from the Powder River Basin is unloaded.

All is silent on the Gunnison Line... The Denver & Rio Grande Western stretched westward toward the booming gold mines of the mighty west bound for mines near Crested Butte and points west... (more)

The many different angles of rail grinding operations can be seen as the fresh steel rusts due to inactivity and the spilled taconite pellets that will probably never become new steel.

The classy Southern Pacific sign on the Davis, California, Amtrak station gives accurate milage to San Francisco and Ogden, as well as elevation in fractions of a foot!

A volunteer at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum works on restoring a Baldwin truck inside the shop at Duluth, Minnesota, on June 10, 2016.

The time on the clock tower appears to be about 9:30 as we see daily activity at the CNW Lakefront terminal in Milwaukee. There would be a NRHS Convention special running out to Clyman later this ... (more)

This tie was last replaced in 1962. The date nail tells the story. This is one rugged hunk of wood, bearing 54 Minnesota winters.

With the afternoon's monsoons passed, and pelting a different portion of the plains, the endangered former AT&SF semaphores in the ghost town of Colmor, New Mexico, faithfully guard the Raton Subd... (more)