With “Starvation Peak” in the distance, and an electrifying thunderstorm churning overhead, Amtrak’s Phase I Heritage unit #156 leads Amtrak’s Southwest Chief past a set of semaphore signa... (more)

Nine units from Needles, California to Chicago, Illinois shuffle through the crossovers at Verona. The Santa Fe signals protecting the plant don't have too many sunsets left.

Southbound manifest Q539 tops the Duff Mountain grade as winter storm Jonas continues to dump snow across northern Tennessee. The storm practically shut down the KD Sub with signal failures and tr... (more)

Whipping up the loose snow set down by its westbound counterpart earlier in the day, the eastbound Southwest Chief charges across the plains of northern New Mexico. The nine car train is ab... (more)

It may be CP but this scene is ALL D&H... Canadian Pacific Railway's pair of Delaware & Hudson lightning-striped GP38-2s and a D&H bay-window caboose head up the Glens Falls Local train DA-13, as ... (more)

Empty coal hoppers pass under the C&O signal bridge at MP 112.9 on the CSX Pemberville Sub as a BNSF leads the train east on warm fall morning.

It's the beginning of monsoon season in New Mexico on July 20, 2015 as Amtrak train No. 4, the Southwest Chief rolls along through the intermediate semaphore signals outside of Wagon Mound on BNSF... (more)

KCS 4117 lead's a G AGMBRC through Rochelle, IL eastbound on a remarkable Sunday evening sunset.

BNSF is busy installing CTC on their double track section of the Aurora Sub between Graf near LaCrosse, and CP 1462 near Savanna. Alot of this section of the railroad is still TWC/ABS territory, w... (more)

With Mount Fitzwilliam towering in the background, M309's train cruises off of the south track at the appropriately name Fitzwilliam control point.

Santa Fe's LAZ112 local crests the 7335 ft. Arizona Divide west of Flagstaff on Oct. 5, 1995.

With empty coal hoppers for the classification yard at Russell in tow, CSX #86 begins the trek up the Big Sandy Valley from Shelby to Russell, passing the ex-C&O bracket signals at the West End of... (more)

Train 275 heads under the "Cumberland Chair" intermediate signal bridge. These GRS signals are long gone now, replaced with Safetrans, forever changing the look of the CNO&TP. Interesting to not... (more)

After meeting an eastbound on the double track at Wabamun, M301 with CN ES44AC 2875 leading, resumes it's trip from Edmonton to Vancouver.

Grinding upgrade on the Pocahontas District, eastbound manifest 18M ducks under the N&W CPL at Langraff, WV on it's assault on the Elkhorn Grade. Photo taken with permission.