The daily North Platte-West Colton manifest comes rip roaring through the one (flashing) traffic light town of Brule, NE on an early spring afternoon. The space between the mainlines was once occu... (more)

Out in the vastness of central Wyoming, the 9731 East is climbing the grade toward Percy as it passes the control point at Walcott, WY. Fuji Provia.

North Platte to Pocatello manifest MNPPC-09 is rolling along the UP Trail just west of Chappell, NE on an early March afternoon.

It's sort of a gloomy day on the mountain but the trains keep coming. Oak Island-Conway manifest OIPI is slugging it out on the grade as it passes lonely MG Block Station, deep in the woods. Ektac... (more)

It's getting so that the disappearing unique signal systems hold as much interest as other objects of particular photos. The searchlights and cantilever certainly spoke "Santa Fe". That ... (more)

When this portion of the railroad was handling 70-90 trains daily, yet another westbound highballs Ogallala, NE. Fuji Provia.

The high speed super-elevated curve through Mapleton, PA was always a great spot to watch traffic with the classic PRR-era signal bridge spanning the right of way. Alas, the signal bridge and posi... (more)

Back in the good ole days of Big Blue, symbol freight ALPI (Allentown-Conway) is beginning its ascent to Gallitzin at Brickyard crossing with a pair of SD40-2 helpers coupled ahead of the road pow... (more)

The double tracking of UP's Blair Sub came to a halt at West Kennard, where on this fine spring day UP 4307 is entering single track toward Fremont, NE. An eastbound stack train is waiting to go a... (more)

Looking a bit grungy but sounding great, NS 4120 is on the move for Conway yard with a relief crew on board. Fuji Velvia.

The Hinkle to North Platte perishables has a couple SD40s, a DRGW SD50 repaint and hiding around the bend a Rio Grande SD40T-2 as power. The train is climbing the short Archer hill just east of Ch... (more)

It's a mild autumn afternoon as just another of the daily parade of manifests comes hi-tailing out the Juniata River valley at a rural grade crossing east of Newport. Conrail in its prime ran a fa... (more)

In a scene typical of the Overland Route through Nebraska, symbol MNPPCP-26 (North Platte-Pocatello) is powered up to track speed as it rolls through rural Brule, NE on an early spring afternoon. ... (more)

During a brief pocket of mild temperatures between arctic cold fronts, there was a good run of traffic along UP's Marysville Sub with eight trains in an hour. Amidst those westbound was this Jeffr... (more)

Things seemed so quaint, so comparatively recently. While many mainlines maintained their distinctive signal systems of predecessor roads, now the scene has largely been transmuted to a generic bl... (more)