GE23's crew heads back to Inman Yard, "engine light," after dropping inbound autoracks at East Point which came in earlier on train 275. NS AC44C6M 4001, one of the two original DC propulsion to A... (more)

CR 6055 brings a piggyback train past Tower MO near Cresson, PA in June of 1992.

A Canadian Cab C44-9WL leads a southbound Q-Train passed the still man operated JB Tower just as its about to pound the Union Pacific mainline.

Another AC4400CW in commuter service - a scene that will one day soon become Brigadoonish. The AC4400CWs are scheduled to all be gone at the end of October. This one is on a train to Oceanside pas... (more)

After having some engine issues around Johnstown, 10N came up to Cresson, stopped their train, cut the power away, and wyed the power at Gallitzin and put NS 1703, a SD45-2, in the lead of the tra... (more)

With helpers ahead of the road power and two more on the rear, a 137 car westbound manifest is 21st of 22 trains in four hours at MG, back when it was still a part-time open office. The air lines ... (more)

A westbound Conrail manifest approaches Banks tower on the former Pennsylvania Railroad’s Middle Division. The still-manned tower will soon be razed, and the location’s name will be reduced to... (more)

BN 5519 leads a mix of vintage EMDs on a northbound freight at Reservation Tower in Tacoma, WA on a somewhat dreary February day in 1979. Taken from the embankment of the Milwaukee Road overpass, ... (more)

Approximately twenty minutes after departing Union Passenger Terminal, Amtrak's Crescent races across a diamond. The abandoned interlocking tower was the second I've seen in New Orleans.

After waiting on 5 Westbounds on their own rails, 2 CSX trains to cross on the former Conrail line, and an Eastbound ahead to clear, 234 crosses the diamond at Marion, passing AC Tower, on a very ... (more)

MILW #147 crests Lake Hill on a beautiful Winter day in 1986. Lake Hill was deceptively steep, sometime requiring helper units to make it up the hill. The tower in the background was eventually bu... (more)

Moving from one storage location to another, 8 GE Dash-8 variants are dead in tow on this evening's Q400 manifest bound for Cumberland, MD. In addition to the lead 3 motors, this train has 11 unit... (more)

Metra Milwaukee District train is arriving at Western Avenue station as it passes Tower A-2.

"Hauling Thru Toby"

One of the afternoon procession of eastbound TV trains starts past SO Block Station in South Fork, PA as it tackles the ascending grade toward Gallitzin. SO was built in 1902 and burned down, appa... (more)