The one thing that always captures my interest about Chicago is the complete maze of tracks you'll find there - here a Metra train weaves its way through said maze, and past the 16th Street Tower.

The town clock has just tolled 9am as a pair of Conrail's lovely SD-80MACs, the 4110 and 4114, highball through town with 159 cars. The former Hunt Block and Interlocking Station once housed a US&... (more)

Yard power rests between assignments at Hobart Tower as the LA skyline looms in the background. Included in this set of power is a former Vermont Railway GP60. The Hollywood sign can be faintly se... (more)

Companion photo to 600657 at CK Tower in Winona, MN. A SOO and a MILW caboose cross the CNW in July of 1987.

CNW's CK Tower in Winona, MN in July of 1987. This tower guarded the CNW/MILW crossing and was taken out of service in 1989. It was torn down soon thereafter.

GMTX 2015 passes the former Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines tower at Tuckahoe, N.J. The tower controlled the junction where PRSL trains from Camden either went on to Cape May or diverted onto ... (more)

A pair of GP15s lead a Yard Center to Chicago Heights job past Jay Tower, named because of the EJ&E crossing. As of 2016, the motors are still in service however the tower has been razed.

A Mopac southbound flyer rips through Thornton Junction on a dry and dusty July day in 1983.

Portsmouth, Dover & York Street Railway RPO No. 108 poses in front of Tower C at the Seashore Trolley Museum during the annual night photo shoot. No. 108 was built by Laconia Car Company in 1904 a... (more)

Western Pacific 3003 passes Hobart Tower as it heads South towards Long Beach and the Harbor area.

Southbound coke train crossing the diamonds

This elevated crossing shanty guarded the north end of Soo Line's Neenah Yard in November of 1983. This shanty was saved and is at the Mid-Continent RR Museum in Wisconsin.

Detour! Amtrak #8 has detoured over CNW's Adam Line due to flooding and is heading past the North Milwaukee tower in March of 1986. The train is now back on home rails but still has a few miles to... (more)

Pieces of the Past, Fragments of the Future

NS 8102 charges past HUNT tower at 4th Street in Huntingdon, PA. The tower, long closed, now serves as offices for the Huntingdon County... (more)