Lightning races across the sky as the sound of thunder fills the air. The rain is coming down in sheets as I get soaked to the bone. A westbound has just rolled into Altoona and the EOTD can still... (more)

BNSF 797 South begins its climb up the Tehachapi Mountains, as it passes under one of two remaining cantilever signal bridges still in service between Bakersfield and Mojave.

12T heads West through Attica with two relics taking the limelight in this shot - the quickly disappearing Conrail leader, and the old code line that used to be used for signal communications with... (more)

Commuters wait as PA-1 859 arrives with a long commuter train at Ridgewood.

The last rays of sunlight on a Friday afternoon in the Mojave Desert glint off of the side of this eastbound manifest climbing out of Cadiz.

CSX's Avon, Ind./Big Four Yard to Lafayette, Ind., turn J726 charges southbound through the intermediate semaphores just north of Linden, Ind. The semaphores and pole line are scheduled to come do... (more)

The orange glow of the setting sun fills the evening sky, as the combined effort of GE and EMD power lift the M-STOBAR up the 1% grade at Sandcut.

A northbound blasts past the old code line and signals on former L&N trackage.

Eastbound NS 218 passes an ex NKP bracket mast at the west end Payne siding. Today the bracket mast is replaced with modern signals and all of the railroad pole line has been taken down.

A trio of EMDs lead a long Grand Forks - Northtown H-train south into Gardner, paralleling the old Great Northern pole line running the distance between The Forks and Fargo.

Southbound with unit coal train for Shamokin Dam power plant with UP 2286 0n train in afternoon sun passing nice RR pole line.

5615 leads a loaded coal drag through the small town of Coloma on a beautiful winter morning.

As a teenager not yet old enough to drive, I needed to bum rides to railfan. One Sunday in early 1970, my Dad and I (and Rex, our dog) headed tackside. Here a four-car Santa Fe train 75, a westbo... (more)

With the season's first snowfall, the feeling is cold and bleak as the Pere Marquette passes Lake Michigan's shoreline. To contrast this shot, take a look at my summer view from that same perspec... (more)

Northbound on the main at Fair interlocking passing some nice rr poles.