First time visiting the Pittsburgh line. I managed to catch Amtrak at CP Hunt

A Roger Puta photograph.

Peak summer travel season has begun, and Union Pacific’s combined City of Los Angeles-San Francisco is running in two sections, one to accommodate first-class travelers and a second for the coac... (more)

The Milwaukee Road has been a part of Soo Line for over two years when this photo was taken, but lead GP40 No. 2046 has so far escaped being "bandit-ized" by the Soo's patchwork repainti... (more)

The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

In a rare, public passenger move over the former Boston and Maine Railroad's West End, Amtrak's Autumn Express heads east past the former JV Tower at Johnsonville, NY. Here, the B&M's Troy Branch... (more)

A westbound stack train works hard to climb the roughly 1.8% grade of the Alleghenies mountain west out of Altoona. Here the train passes the closed MG tower that was built in 1944 to provide cros... (more)

The CR 8077 West (with one leg missing from the "R" in the "CR" on the nose) is about to pass the long-gone ex-PRR Banks Tower in this 135mm telephoto view. The 8077 was built... (more)

PRR 1361 steams into downtown York during a weekend of excursions based out of the Pennsylvania town.

A southbound Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac intermodal train clatters across the former C&O on the diamond next to the shuttered tower at Doswell, Va.

A Conrail interlocking tower scene from 1983 at Willow Creek in Portage Indiana. A few decades ago the B&O, NYC Michigan Central, and Wabash 4th District crossed here. Currently this busy junction... (more)

The original Boston & Maine Troy Branch alignment can be imagined by the placement of the tower, with the freight mainline still in place and hosting today's Pan Am Southern East Deerfield. MA to ... (more)

Jersey Central’s HX tower in Palmerton, Pennsylvania has long been abandoned, and the graffiti artists have started to make their claim to its brick walls. HX controlled Hazard interlocking, whi... (more)