Since this year SNCF has new freight cars for transportation of sheet metal coils.

A string of freight cars on the DSS&A is backing to the rail ferry dock in St. Ignace, Michigan. They will be loaded aboard the SS CHIEF WAWATAM and carried across the Straits of Mackinac to Mack... (more)

Just outside CSXT's Cayce Yard sits the small storage area for Commercial Metals. The facility is serviced by 2 industry switchers at any given time. With their primary power down because of an ... (more)

Utah Central 201 is an aging chop-nose GP9 painted in glossy pure black, making it hard to see in any situation. Here it is cut in mid-train to set out several boxcars at the Petersen Steel wareho... (more)

Kasgro Rail Corporation depressed center flat car KWUX 200, owned by Siemens Power Corporation, brings up the rear of westbound NS 37A as it passes under the Westinghouse Bridge in East Pittsburgh... (more)

New locomotive for the Indian Railways on its way to the port for shipment

If you ever wondered what happened to some of Amtrak’s ExpressTrak reefer cars, the answer can be found in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. In this view from September 1, 2013, a group of the cars ... (more)

Really white—trucks and all
Two retired tank cars are being used at a storage facility at Ansel, Colorado, along the shortline San Luis Central on September 1, 2013. The cars are no lo... (more)

"Pulls from Manhattan Beer" New York & Atlantic Railway SW1001 101 leads 2 MP15ACs and 4 box cars up-grade out of Manhattan Beer Distributors in Queens.

A UP welder that's been working on the crossing behind him is looking at the rails of the Mineola Sub as loaded well cars pass over them. He's watching for fractures in the rails he could fix whil... (more)

Early CSX paint schemes included variants that were not widely propagated. Here, a C&O 100-ton hopper has retained its reporting marks, and the CSX logo includes the word, “Transportation”. Th... (more)

Five months old, a Florida East Coast boxcar rolls through Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania.

Escanaba & Lake Superior was another of the many short lines that tried to cash in on the short-lived per diem box car market. Here one of their cars rolls through McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. ... (more)

In the past few years I’ve seen photos that included Cryo-Trans reefers that were filthy and tagged beyond recognition. Here is what one looked like when fresh.