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A few more Kodachromes from the wayback machine in 1984. The first from Schneider, IN and the second from Terre Haute, IN. Sadly, the Terre Haute depot was razed soon after I took the picture.

From July 1984, a northbound commuter train clears the junction at Rondout, IL. The train is on the Milwaukee Road mainline and the other track is the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern's. This was, and remains a fast railroad. The yellow sign attached to the signal at the right grants freight trains 50...

From April 1980, looking out from an upper floor of the Santa Fe Railway's General Office in Chicago at the Illinois Central's lakefront mainline. That's Grant Park beyond and the Adler Planetarium at the upper right.

From Roanoke, VA in October 1994 [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020]

Staying with our theme, here's a Wisconsin Central SD-45 leading an NS freight at Pulaski, VA in April 2006. [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020]

From December 1984 at Montgomery, AL, SCL SD-45 2020 (hey, that's this year!) is at the ready. Those cool-looking flared radiators at the rear made the SD-45 a fan favorite.

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. ;)