A westbound Conrail manifest approaches Banks tower on the former Pennsylvania Railroad’s Middle Division. The still-manned tower will soon be razed, and the location’s name will be reduced to... (more)

BN 5519 leads a mix of vintage EMDs on a northbound freight at Reservation Tower in Tacoma, WA on a somewhat dreary February day in 1979. Taken from the embankment of the Milwaukee Road overpass, ... (more)

Approximately twenty minutes after departing Union Passenger Terminal, Amtrak's Crescent races across a diamond. The abandoned interlocking tower was the second I've seen in New Orleans.

After waiting on 5 Westbounds on their own rails, 2 CSX trains to cross on the former Conrail line, and an Eastbound ahead to clear, 234 crosses the diamond at Marion, passing AC Tower, on a very ... (more)

MILW #147 crests Lake Hill on a beautiful Winter day in 1986. Lake Hill was deceptively steep, sometime requiring helper units to make it up the hill. The tower in the background was eventually bu... (more)

Moving from one storage location to another, 8 GE Dash-8 variants are dead in tow on this evening's Q400 manifest bound for Cumberland, MD. In addition to the lead 3 motors, this train has 11 unit... (more)

Metra Milwaukee District train is arriving at Western Avenue station as it passes Tower A-2.

"Hauling Thru Toby"

One of the afternoon procession of eastbound TV trains starts past SO Block Station in South Fork, PA as it tackles the ascending grade toward Gallitzin. SO was built in 1902 and burned down, appa... (more)

This Milwaukee Road E unit is northbound and about to cross the C&NW diamonds at Mayfair Tower in 1976.

Echoing the sights, sounds, and smells of Milwaukee Road passenger and freight trains of the past is Nickel Plate Road 765 coming off of Metra's Fox Lake Subdivision at Rondout with The Varsit... (more)

Soo Line's Jenswold Street Interlocking tower stood guard over a SOO/NP crossing in Duluth under the DMIR ore dock. The tower has been abandoned for a while as DMIR #189 switches the dock in the b... (more)

Westbound on the Middle Division by "Jacks" Tower, located west of Mount Union, PA, on Valentines Day in 1976.

A CNW "Scoot" commuter train rolls through Deval Tower which protects CNW and Soo Line's crossing on the northwest side of Chicago. This train is on the northwest line, coming into Des P... (more)

Cabooses on the end of two Burlington Northern trains pass MJ Tower on the south side of Superior, Wisconsin, on October 20, 1985. Waiting for all the BN action at the crossing to clear is Missabe... (more)