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Re: Images from the Museum of the American Railroad, Frisco, TX October 1994 at Q Tower in Hardman, WV. This remote tower was closed in June of 1998 and demolished. My wife and I were invited upstairs by a friendly towerman who invited my wife to throw the "armstrong" levers and set up the...

Below Sand Patch Tunnel on the east slope is Falls Cut Tunnel. October 1994 [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020]

That same weekend, I caught another Western Maryland SD-40 leading at Sand Patch. Hey, that's my name here! :)

In November of 1981 friends and I visited busy Viaduct Jct. in Cumberland, MD where the former B&O mainline splits to Chicago and St. Louis. That's ND Tower, demolished in 1997. These are all Kodachromes, shot with my Nikkormat FTn. As I recall, the entire weekend was heavily overcast. :(

August 1983, an eastbound at Harpers Ferry, WV on the former B&O main. I recall barely having time to set up for this shot.

Then there was this improved variant, still not easily seen at highway grade crossings. Brunswick, MD - August 1989.

Agreed crashton. Only the boys in Cost Accounting could have created such a thing. In all its dynamic glory, here's the "Stealth" scheme underway at Shenendoah Jct., WV in April 1996.

The paint scheme that CSX should have adopted -- the Chessie System's. [Kodachrome, Nikon EL-2, January 1989, Atlanta, GA]

The last account was closed out in 1931 at the National Bank of Thurmond (WV).

From July 1985, two EMD AEM-7 racehorses await their next assignment north at Washington, DC Union Station.

McPherson Square Station on the Washington, DC Metro, September 1989. [Kodachrome, Nikon EL-2]

Port Jervis, NY rail station [Nov. 1981, Kodachrome, Nikon EL-2]

Some abandoned towers get no respect. These are both former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western towers that once served a high speed cut-off across western NJ as built just over a century ago. It was at the time one of the most highly engineered lines in America. It's gone today. The DL&W loved...

The former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western tower in Dover, NJ was open when I visited in September of '82. It's now a residence! If it ever comes up for sale, I'm moving in. ;)

Yes, they're very close. Clinton, NJ is only about 10 miles west of Whitehouse. The area was so rural when I lived in NJ that it was easy to walk around the tower and go inside without anyone caring. I looked at some Internet map sites and I don't see the tower where I remember it, so I...

From December 1980, levers within an abandoned interlocking tower (or a "signal box" to our British friends) at Whitehouse, NJ. This was located on the former Central of New Jersey main line.

When I look at lift bridges, I always wonder how the Engineers keep the towers and bridge structure in square. The foundations must be deep and extremely strong, as any misalignment would cause binding. In the mid-1930s, the Pennsylvania Railroad built two massive multi-track lift bridges in...

Railroad vertical lift bridge crossing the Cape Cod Canal at Buzzard's Bay, MA, the second longest lift bridge in the U.S.. [Rollei 35mm, Kodachrome, June 1992]

Water tank is to the right. (Terrible old scan) [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

From August 1980 at Suffern, NY a former E-L SDP-45 is in charge on the Erie mainline. [Nikkormat FTn, Kodachrome]