Rio Grande's Helper Local ducks under the Ironton signal bridge while departing Provo Yard on August 29, 1987.

Westbound CSX No. 377 passes the westward signal at Carothers, just east of Paw Paw, WV on a steamy day in the Potomac River Valley. This area suffered a particularly bad bout with the Gypsy Moth... (more)

Westbound Penn Central freight train at Bay Junction in West Detroit, Michigan, on October 14, 1973. The large building at the left is General Motors' Cadillac plant. Photograph by more)

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Passing one of Northern Pacific’s classic cantilevered searchlight signals at the east end of Laurel Yard on the evening of January 27, 2013, a departing BNS... (more)

The Delaware & Hudson section of Amtrak's Adirondack at Port Henry.

For many decades semaphore signals such as these guided some of the nation’s most historic passenger trains across the country. Fast forward to 2013 and this group of semaphore signals in the hi... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief train #3 splits the classic semaphore blades at the east end of the siding at Wagon Mound, New Mexico enroute from Chicago to Los Angeles. This segment of... (more)

First train picture of 2013. NS 8340 and it's manifest train gets the proceed signal off the siding at Shepherdstown after waiting for a southbound train to pass.

A westbound hopper train lights up the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Color Position Light Signal Bridge just west of Hancock on the CSX Cumberland Sub. This along with the Bracket Mast signals in th... (more)

With sunset rapidly approaching, a very lengthy autorack train swings through E.E. Pemberville with a pair of AC GEVO's providing the necessary power to keep the heavy train moving

Another day is just beginning in western Ohio, and the former mainline of the Chesapeake & Ohio is bustling with activity. A loaded coal train heads towards Toledo at dawn, shooting under the int... (more)

Green Bay & Western C424 #312 and company works on an eastbound freight at Tunnel City, WI in August 1975. Photograph by more)

Charles Town, WV 11/20/2012 - The shadows of passing freight cars in the distance create a ghostly image of Norfolk Southern's northbound 38Q along the NS "H-line" to Hagerstown. Amid grand old tr... (more)

Three C&O standards come together at once: coal, grain, and center sidings. While Q310 does their work at Vauces, a loaded coal train rolls down main one, and an empty grain train creeps up main t... (more)

A CSX coal train grinds up hill with helpers in the rear passed the C&O cantilever.