By the light of the moon. Missabe Road era signals still guard movements along the CN Iron Range Sub. For how much longer?

All red at CP Morgan. The Pennsy position lights have been guiding trains through Racine Avenue in Chicago since the 1920's. Over the next few days, they will be taken out of service and replaced ... (more)

Holding the weight of mammoth trains and allowing them to travel for vast distances, the rail I guess you could say is the backbone of the railroad. The letter "I" typically represents its shape.... (more)

Abandoned narrow gauge hopper cars belonging to the East Broad Top Railroad sit staged ready for an assignment that never came, left frozen in time. Though abandoned, they are not without ownersh... (more)

An elusive standard gauge tank car sits forlorn among narrow gauge hoppers in the woods of what was once the bustling Mount Union yard of the East Broad Top Railroad.

The perils of urban railfanning. A UP transfer rounds the curve at Division and pulls to a stop near the St. Paul Union Depot where they will wait for a barge to pass before they can proceed over ... (more)

A long abandoned hopper and a steel box car sit frozen in time, serving as a time capsule preserving a part of Mount Union's past. That is, so long as someone, or some group, remains in a position... (more)

Mother Nature wraps her limbs around a pair of abandoned narrow gauge hoppers at East Broad Top's Mount Union yard in an apparent attempt to reclaim the land.

EBT narrow gauge hoppers at rust at the north end of the East Broad Top Mount Union Yard. The hopper cars have sat here, frozen in time, since the railroad closed back on April 13, 1956. Though ... (more)

A Tree Grows in Mount Union

A tree makes its way to Heaven, piercing through the trucks and around the belly of a narrow gauge hopper car. The rusting car, one of over 200, has sat in Ea... (more)

A full moon rises behind the old Norfolk & Western CPLs in Radford, VA, on a cold Spring night.

When the days are short and that 7:00 a.m. call time gets you up in complete darkness, its only natural to want to either rub the sleep from your eyes or drink hot coffee from that favorite mug as... (more)

With a large clean plume of steam and a few pulls on the whistle cord, the engineer of New Hope's steam locomotive announces the arrival of the excursion train to Lahaska, PA.

New Hope & Ivyland's 2-8-0 No. 40 storms out of the station on an otherwise clear and calm beautiful sunny day in mid-December. Fresh snow from the day before, along with an impressive plume made... (more)

Both built in 1891, these former Reading buildings serve the New Hope and Ivyland Railroad. The station (foreground) serves as the ticket office while the building to the rear (the freight station... (more)