Remnant of the old pole line still remains as a UP C40-8 leads the NS 365 westbound on the main at the east end Dunfee siding. UP 9247 is currently on lease to Norfolk Southern.

The westbound Carl Sandburg is only a few mintues from making its 9am station stop at Mendota. Here the train screams out of Earlville about 5 miles east of Mendota. The old signals and poles line... (more)

A welded rail train behind two mother-slug sets heads down the C&O at VA Junction south of Chillicothe on a fine spring morning. Get those C&O cantilever signals while you still can!

It's a perfect spring morning on CSX's Northern Sub as we catch an eastbound with coal empties headed back to the mines.

A westbound freight train has just passed thru the small town of Somonauk on BNSF Mendota Sub. Somonauk is located at MP 59, around 16 miles west of Aurora.

The sun has set on another day as a loaded coal train pounds its way towards Chicago for interchange with an eastern railroad. Telegraph lines/poles and classic CB&Q signal bridges are disappearin... (more)

A pair of INRD 90's have been doing the honors for the CP this week move their hotshot train 182/183 between Bensenville, IL, and Minneapolis, MN. This pair and a CP GE rumble eastbound in the ear... (more)

While new snow clings to antique code line insulators, Union Pacific's Roseville, CA to North Platte, NE manifest ascends the Evanston Sub grade at Peterson, Utah.

Small elevators and a surviving code line add charm to the otherwise flat and unremarkable Hillsboro Subdivision between Fargo and Grand Forks. It also helps when Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder... (more)

E-L freight works the main west of Dover.

The MRL 20th Anniversary train heading back to Missoula, tries to keep ahead of threatening skies just minutes before sunset.

An eastbound light power move heads by what is left of the code line through Marion for the Mt. Victory Sub, as CSXT 7392, with its marker lights on, brings up the rear.

The former Monon semaphores at South Romney, Indiana, stand guard in what would be their final winter protecting trains in Indiana. The signals would fall March 25, 2009.

With a z-train hot on its heels (visible in the distance), a BNSF manifest begins its climb out of the San Joaquin Valley towards the summit at Tehachapi.

An eastbound manifest is making good time toward Willmar as it passes an endless line of old telegraph poles.