A new Cryo-Trans mechanical refrigerator car takes a break at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City. The CRYX 5825 was manufactured by Greenbrier of Lake Oswego, Oregon in Feb. 2013. The car is 72 feet ... (more)

Old Steel. Here is a trio of 1907 built ore cars. They made great cars in ballast service due to the manual doors on both ends. Loaned and later donated to the Lake Superior & Mississippi tourist ... (more)

An interesting car, AOK 21993 features a depressed center for loading dimensional lumber.

Two China Rail workers unload blocks of frozen fish from conventional boxcars. With daytime highs in the mid-teens---no refrigeration needed!

The green on these stored coal hoppers might be faded but the memory of the BN still runs strong in Duluth.

Identity Crisis
A former Penn Central covered hopper now with Conrail lettering but under Norfolk Southern ownership sits in the Roberta yard as it waits for another load of lime from... (more)

After running up the siding and dropping covered hoppers off a single Annie geep now rolls back down the mainline towards Ottawa Yard.

The NS 6702 waits in the East Yard for the recently delivered load of limestone to be unloaded. This is used in the plant WFGD or "scrubber" system and is injected into the flue gas to help reduce... (more)

Late afternoon sun glints off the big ARMN reefers and boxcars on a westbound Union Pacific freight at Hermosa, Wyoming, late in the afternoon of March 25, 2008.

A set of loaded coal hoppers streak by the CPL signals at Willowtown...

BLM 1149 is hitching a ride through Canada to Tennessee on a TTX depressed flat car.

A loaded ore train with cars equipped with traditional friction bearing trucks and steel brake shoes creates a smoke cloud as it nears the base of the 2.2% grade of Proctor Hill near the Duluth or... (more)

An AEM-7AC sits with a bunch of ballast hoppers in Penn Coach Yard.

Coming from Island Pond Vt, St Lawrence & Atlantic #393 pulls into the yard at Richmond Qc with a Swedish built train set. Destined for Tennessee, the consist will be interchanged with Canadian... (more)

After a 34 year life on the railroad, the colorful aspects of this Railbox logo and slogan have faded away leaving behind their outline and original colors applied just down the road at the Pullma... (more)