A coal train splits the once bustling railroad town of Thurmond, now a popular tourist attraction in the heart of the New River Gorge. The old C&O cantilever, coaling tower, and abandoned downtown... (more)

An eastbound train under a signal bridge guarding the approach to Yuma, AZ, with the setting sun behind it.

IC C44-9W 2706 passes under the eastward approach signal to Henry House with a heavy 170 car potash train in tow for North Vancouver.

NS stack train 20R with the Wabash/Southern combo heads east as it passes under the NYC signal bridge at CP 216 in Vermilion.

There are those events to which we can look back and say "I'm glad I was there". This was such an event. "We don't need no stinking diesels!" Up the steepest mainline grade... (more)

On the night before the lights went dark on the B&O CPL's in the popular train watching spot in Glendale, a few photographers paid their respects. The next day new signals replaced the old and an ... (more)

The Southern-Style GRS signals at Delaplain, KY are perhaps seeing Southern green and gold for the last time as 8099K leads hotshot 215 down the CNO&TP. These are the last "untouched CP" GRS signa... (more)

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train crosses the Clark Fork and passes the mile 210.3 semaphore east of Quinns, Montana, on June 30, 2000.

NS 22A prepares to enter the siding to meet 202, coming north from Bristol.

A hot eastbound BNSF intermodal train takes the siding at the west switch at Watrous, New Mexico, on March 6, 2005.

Early on a bright February morning BNSF 7155 leads an impressive cut of power and an eastbound manifest under the iconic SP signal bridge just north of Mojave. The future of the signal bridge is ... (more)

GTW SD40-3 5950 and CN SD40-2 5367 struggle towards Jasper with a whopping 131 cars in tow.

The Christmas rush in in full swing as train 204 blasts through Wellford, SC on this first week of December 2010. Sadly, the classic Southern Signal Bridge only had a few years left in service, a... (more)

A westbound Q-CXOLAC1-12 is lined up at La Plata as the sun sets on the day. This control point in northern central Missouri is one of the few remaining signal bridges left along the Marceline Sub... (more)

In the quietest moments of a winter storm, fire and ice converge in the tangled trackwork at Metra's busiest interlocking in the Chicagoland area.