The celebratory inaugural run of Amtrak's Cape Codder weekend service between New York and Hyannis, MA, pauses at Buzzards Bay behind flag-flying F40PH 349. This train ran seasonally in various co... (more)

Passing the preserved AC tower on Sunday morning of Summerail weekend

SOO 1003 puts on a nice show as it heads east by Rondout Tower and the Milwaukee Road searchlights. 1003 is enroute back home to Hartford, WI after attending a fundraiser for the Shriner's Childre... (more)

On a clear winter's day, SP 9805 East passes Stockton Tower. The train is a relatively short manifest headed for Roseville. Note that only two tracks remain on SP's right of way, where there used ... (more)

Freshly painted MILW SD40-2 #142 storms past the tower at Lake on Milwaukee's south side in October of 1984. There is a fairly steep grade here that can bring a heavy freight to its knees.

Candy apple red SOO GP9 2553 leads a short a transfer past Argo Tower in Summit IL in June 1994. Train is on IHB/B&OCT rails about to cross the IC/GM&O.

At the end of a cold January day in 1983, the setting sun silhouettes Duplainville tower. The diamond at Duplainville, Wisconsin, featured Soo Line’s main line crossing a double-track Milwaukee ... (more)

With a healthy burp of Alco smoke, an A-B-B-A set of former New Haven FAs and FBs accelerates past South Bay Tower in South Boston as they get underway with Penn Central train BL-1 for Lowell, MA,... (more)

Santa Fe 4023 West, a 199 train out of Chicago, crosses the SP's Valley Line at Stockton Tower.

Amtrak's Capitol Limited rolls into Martinsburg, WV for its westbound station stop but not before it passes the old B&O Freight House and NA Tower which at one point controlled the interlockings f... (more)

BN 3100 is eastbound past the tower at Grand Crossing in Lacrosse, WI in October of 1986. The train is crossing the ex-MILW mainline. The tower, amazingly, has been preserved.

A pair of KCS units lead manifest freight Q393 west past Walkerton Tower.

The Conrail heritage unit leads train 63V by the retired Alto tower, departing Altoona, Pennsylvania. 63V, known as the "Trash Train", moves municipal waste from New Jersey to Mingo Jct... (more)

Early on a clear Saturday morning, an eastbound SP freight trundles over the diamonds at the crossing of the Santa Fe Stockton Sub at Stockton Tower. The SP is on the railroad's Valley Line, which... (more)

CP's Geometry Train is seen testing Metra's Rock Island District as it heads south by 16th Street Tower.