On a hazy September afternoon, a hot eastbound pig train trundles through the SP-Santa Fe diamonds as it heads for Portland, OR.

B&O tower in Kalamazoo is on the hit list to be fazed out sometime soon. Some kind of crazy agreement with the NS and Amtrak, gives an awesome retirement job to a few operators that get to watch a... (more)

CNW 4194 crosses the Milwaukee River bridge with a short train in November of 1995. This bridge is no longer used and was once the route of the famed "400" fleet.

IC 8733 leads the photo freight past Stair Tower.

Power for EDMO (East Deerfield - Mohawk Yard)

Order up! Orders are hung and awaiting a freight on a foggy day in October of 1984. How appropriate that Halloween is only a few days away. There is a caboose on the approaching train judging from... (more)

We're about to climb the stairs at Union Junction and pay a visit to the op at shift change. Standing by the tower is the late H. A. Wilgis, who ran the restored GG-1 No. 4935 on its first revenu... (more)

A southbound passenger extra with a rare SDL39 hits the former Milwaukee Road diamonds at Duplainville as the headlight of a WC freight waits in the background for a signal to return to home rail... (more)

Travelling north, this Chicago & North Western manifest passes Broadway tower in Green Bay, Wisconsin. After clearing a grade crossing of the street with the same name, the train will be in C&NWâ... (more)

Port Tower's days are numbered, as the eastbound Broadway Limited passes by. No. 400 was built by EMD for Amtrak in August, 1985, and eventually ended up on the Agence métropolitaine de transpor... (more)

Soo 2405 is on the newly constructed wye at Duplainville, WI in August of 1987. The tower is long gone since this photo was taken.

A practice used by very few is still a tradition on the nation's busiest commuter railroad. Long Island train 1701 stops at Nassau Tower to pick up orders about a track condition further west at N... (more)

The Afternoon Hiawatha. A Roger Puta Photograph

A trio of C&NW Geeps brings the transfer run from Jones Island past St. Francis Tower. The tower used to govern the junction of the passenger line and the freight by-pass in Milwaukee. Today, the ... (more)