A 40-foot Rock Island boxcar, along with a a pair of 50-foot Santa Fe plug-door boxcars (one not visible located behind these two), ended up being pretty nice storage units for someone at Slapout... (more)

NS 1074 trails on 73X at Carson Yard waiting for a new crew to pull it into the harbor.

Bringing up the tailend of CP 420, is a new GO Transit bi-level cabcar fresh from Bombardier in Thunder Bay. This is travelling as "BBRX 302" from Thunder Bay, a common ID used from coaches out of... (more)

A Union Pacific undercutter works on main 2 at McGrew, Nebraska, over the South Morrill Subdivision on July 26, 2009. UP No. 902053 is a Plasser & Theurer RM 2003 undercutter that specializes in c... (more)

A small portion of the 240,000 ton annual output of steel pipe produced by the Berg Steel Pipe mill in Panama City rolls north on unit train K565. The pipe is longitudinal seam welded and has bee... (more)

If you’re in Denver and want to get a good view of rail operations, the UP North Yard gives a great view of engines and sorting freight, while the BNSF Intermodal facility offers a glimpse into ... (more)

Florida: The Consumer State! I have heard statistics that 90% of rail cars come to Florida as loads, and leave as empties. As southbound NS 321 (far track) passes northbound NS 330 (near track), i... (more)

The sun reflects off of brand new MARC Multilevel cars.

Utah Railway caboose No. 61 is pictured at Martin Yard on May 21, 1977. It was built a wood caboose by Mount Vernon Car and delivered to the Utah Railway on Sept. 18, 1927. It is similar in design... (more)

A 'Millenium' caboose in bad shape. CN 79834 is seen stopped in Vankleek Hill on the obscure CN Vankleek Spur. This caboose was built by CN in their Pointe St-Charles shop in Montreal under... (more)

Brand spankin new PROX 17394 sits in track OG32 at Oakville Yard awaiting placement at the Procor facility in Oakville to be painted, these updated tank cars include riot shields, new rung ladders... (more)

SP was experiencing wheel lift of 90-ft. piggyback flat cars on curves in early 1964, so they placed cameras under one of them, coupled to fully-loaded ballast cars, to watch during tests at their... (more)

Yellow Box Wreck - On or about May 5, 1965, a student engineer on his first day of work accelerated too fast around the turn by passing Tunnel 7 and this yellow box car derailed. The car... (more)

Rocky Lives! This great looking relic of Great Northern's Big Sky Blue era has been hidden away in BNSF's Topeka, KS yard for a few weeks now (mp51w first tipped me off to it), but has seemingly... (more)

Several locomotives await work at just outside Union Pacific’s Omaha Shops in June 1981, including GP9s Nos. 269 and 150. Behind them is the 1,007 by 150-foot main shop building. This entire 100... (more)