GMTX 2015 passes the former Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines tower at Tuckahoe, N.J. The tower controlled the junction where PRSL trains from Camden either went on to Cape May or diverted onto ... (more)

A pair of GP15s lead a Yard Center to Chicago Heights job past Jay Tower, named because of the EJ&E crossing. As of 2016, the motors are still in service however the tower has been razed.

A Mopac southbound flyer rips through Thornton Junction on a dry and dusty July day in 1983.

Portsmouth, Dover & York Street Railway RPO No. 108 poses in front of Tower C at the Seashore Trolley Museum during the annual night photo shoot. No. 108 was built by Laconia Car Company in 1904 a... (more)

Western Pacific 3003 passes Hobart Tower as it heads South towards Long Beach and the Harbor area.

Southbound coke train crossing the diamonds

This elevated crossing shanty guarded the north end of Soo Line's Neenah Yard in November of 1983. This shanty was saved and is at the Mid-Continent RR Museum in Wisconsin.

Detour! Amtrak #8 has detoured over CNW's Adam Line due to flooding and is heading past the North Milwaukee tower in March of 1986. The train is now back on home rails but still has a few miles to... (more)

Pieces of the Past, Fragments of the Future

NS 8102 charges past HUNT tower at 4th Street in Huntingdon, PA. The tower, long closed, now serves as offices for the Huntingdon County... (more)

The MEC 610 and 603 just set off the RJED cars in the yard and maneuver to the ready track on a foggy afternoon.

Certainly the most impressive feature of the Lackawanna main line between Scranton and Binghamton is the Tunkhannock Viaduct, the largest concrete structure in the world when completed in 1915. Of... (more)

The Vandalia Railroad's lone engine, SW9 104, sits at the line's office in a former tower in Vandalia, Ill. The Vandalia operates three miles of ex-Illinois Central trackage. The tower guarded a d... (more)

Quad Goodwin/ALCo branchliners 48149, 48124, 48116 and 48132 rumble up grade on approach to Harden with a pre-dawn empty grain shuttle bound for nearby Cunningar. 48149's headlight is illuminating... (more)

With North America's largest interlocking tower in the background, N&W 1218 works its way south (railroad east) along the former Nickel Plate main on a passenger special. Tom Golden photo.

A Conrail N7B caboose brings up the end of an eastbound train passing Banks tower. Enola yard and eight hours of rest are only about five miles away.