Moving day came for the Silver Top. Here it was being placed on a low boy to be trucked to a temporary storage space in a rail yard at Chehalis, Washington. For the last 20 years the car had bee... (more)
The orange logo lives on, although most passers-by likely do not know what it represents. Between the Clark Fork River and the University of Montana, this is the former Milwaukee Road mainline in ... (more)
Sometimes things just don't go as planned. I had often thought about catching a lengthy freight at this location but looking in the other direction. The tracks hug the shoreline and lengthy freigh... (more)
Where once the Colorado Eagle sailed westward to the Rockies and Missouri Pacific freight trains rumbled to and from Pueblo interchanging tonnage with the Rio Grande is now a rusting and forlorn a... (more)