Dressed for the Chessie, former Reading T-1 2101 hauls the Chessie Steam Special past the tower at Porter on the return trip to Chicago from Hartford, MI to help celebrate the Sesquicentennial of ... (more)

Keeping traffic moving over the mountain grades in the Alleghenies is these set of helpers based out of Altoona. Helper crews keep busy shoving or moving around to be in position for the next shov... (more)

The local is waiting for the signal on the former NKP westward siding in 1982. The EJ&E Porter Line is visible adjacent HO tower.

A B40 with a Conrail "Labor/Management Project" nose decal is westbound by the 1942-built MG (Mid-Grade) Tower. The tower is about 1 mile west of Horseshoe Curve, and was offered by Lio... (more)

"A SCENE SOON TO CHANGE"
CSX Q216 passes by the closed Mexico Tower and the soon to be replaced B&O CPL signals as E705 patiently waits with a new crew to head westward. For... (more)

Re-Qualifying Run.

Morristown & Erie 18 is on the Montclair/Boonton Line main at Denville, New Jersey heading West. This was an official M&E run which went down the whole ... (more)

The classic ex-PRR interlocking tower at CP BANKS, before it was painted by Conrail.

An inbound Metra train for LaSalle Street Station crosses the diamond protected by the 16th St. Tower outside downtown Chicago. The tower stands over the crossing of Metra's Rock Island District o... (more)

A Gibson Yard job returns passing Calumet Tower, which lasted much longer than I expected and was the last "true" interlocking tower in the state, closing in March 2013.

ED4 yard job passes the tower at the west end of East Deerfield Yard.

A GG1 passes SA Tower for the final time with a revenue train. I wonder if the video that someone is taking from the rear cab is still around.

A Roger Puta photograph

Jersey Central's tower and main line sit abandoned at Nesquehoning Junction, located near Jim Thorpe, PA. Allentown- Scranton traffic had been rerouted to the Lehigh Valley line between Lehig... (more)

An E-44 with its nose and cab doors open for the breeze parts the weeds near Cola Tower. The 4460 still wears its PRR-style numerals under the cab window, barely visible under the road grime. 44... (more)

Westbound Erie Railroad train 5 The Lake Cities with in the lead Alco PA-1 856, with EMD E8(A) 823 in two-tone green Erie Railroad passenger colors,crossing the Nickel Plate Road tracks at Cresto... (more)