Pair of NS Locomotive Simulators on hand for engineer training.
Happy Holidays from The Valley Railroad. Essex Depot basks in the glow of the holiday lights on a misty, drizzly,...and rather warm evening, two days after Christmas. With the North Pole ... (more)
Not long to go now......Dundalk Central signal cabin during it's final days of operation, note that the letters spelling out the name have already been removed. The top of the cabin was subsequen... (more)
So as I pulled up to the former Great Northern depot I was surprised to see that some local caretaker was thoughtful enough to provide a train update on the chalk board hung outside the waiting ro... (more)
During a beautiful sunrise, it's another day that the Monon semaphores will stand guard as they have for nearly a 100 years. But the time is running short for the old blades of the Monon.
Standing silently, its days numbered, the semaphore at South Raub has just seen a ninety minute-late Amtrak train speed south. The replacement signal is seen in the background, its heads turned si... (more)
Fall is over and the color is gone, but low golden sunlight is abundant on this late November weekend.
Detail shot of the end of an axle on an NS coal hopper
A true New England classic. The 1937 built Boston and Maine depot is a colonial revival style structure that features an octagonal cupola topped with a copper weathervane modeled after a B&M Paci... (more)
Waiting for the next train. A far cry from the number of trains that used to serve the city of Cumberland, but the Train Bulletin at the Western Maryland Station still updates passengers when the ... (more)
A brilliant sunrise in southeast saskatchewan on CP's Broadview Subdivision.
A view at York Railway station as people hang around the route indicators, waiting for their train.
The Orion constellation moves between the semaphore signals in this 2 minutes 46 seconds shot.
The CSXT 8400 did the honors of knocking the semaphore down for me as they followed Amtrak south. A 71 second telephoto exposure.
The day's trips have all been completed, the tourists have departed and the sun sets on the most popular tourist railroad in the lower forty eight.
