Loading of sugar beets. This fall it is maybe the last time for rail transportation. In the next year, probably trucks will carry the sugar beets to the sugar refinery in Frauenfeld.

A Roger Puta photograph.

A Grande Sunset: "On fire" at "Stein's Curve." Literally at the moment of sunset, a westbound Rio Grande Freight suddenly "catches fire" with solar glint, as it negotiates "Stein's Curve", ... (more)

Reading & Northern EMD SW8s 801 and 800 have just completed swapping five coal loads for five empty hoppers on a beautiful autumn afternoon at Good Spring, PA. The crew is about to run around thei... (more)

A westbound BNSF freight on MRL at Trout Creek, MT includes Boeing 737 fuselages in the consist as it rolls across the Frog Pond causeway west of town.

One of thirteen BB40-9W waiting to move west then east to be exported to East Africa.

Happy Halloween
Even taggers can sometimes help the railroad get into the Halloween Spirit.

CSX Office Car "West Virginia". The late Roger Puta's slide was scanned and posted by Marty Bernard.

Alyhough the Akron & Barberton Belt only had leased power at this time, they still had a brightly-painted caboose.

This appears to be the (former?) C&NW Business Car "Chicago." Used apparently as a terminal office for the BRRT in Corpus Christi, TX, the car looks to be left wholly intact (with additional sate... (more)

An NP 50 ft. plug door box car still shows off its heritage in Warden, WA where it is now used as a storage shed adjacent to the Columbia Basin Railway.

Historic cabooses and a classic water tank at the Whippany Railway Museum.

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 Cache Valley Local rambles through rural Mendon with nine cars for Cache Junction on Aug. 18, 1993.

The local has just switched out cars at Munster lumber and is heading back north on the old Monon line. It was unusual to see a MOPAC caboose on this train.