Saved! SP bay window caboose 4729 has been a longtime fixture at Albina Yard in Portland. The car was gutted early this year of asbestos in preparation for scrapping. Fortunately, it was purchased... (more)

A new crew has boarded the caboose and the train is ready to highball.

BNSF 2610 is heading toward the Minneapolis Cemstone plant on the west side on the Mississippi.

Burlington Northern operated a former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy branch from Sterling to Earlville, Illinois. The branch utilizes 0.8 miles of trackage rights on Chicago & North Western’s Troy... (more)

Burlington Northern operated a former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy branch from Sterling to Earlville, Illinois. The branch utilizes 0.8 miles of trackage rights on Chicago & North Western’s Troy... (more)

A single GP38-2 leads a short work train through Wabun, Va on the Whitethorne district.

NS 213 passes the old Southern Railway caboose in Suwanee on a day where temperatures nearly hit the 90s in early spring. Trailing 3/3 is the Nickel Plate heritage unit

Wallowing in the weeds at Walton
Quiet in the tiny hamlet of Walton, Illinois, is disturbed by the infrequent passage of an eastbound Burlington Northern local on June 10, 1984. Trackage... (more)

A Union Pacific coal train waits for departure on a rainy and foggy night in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in April 1984. Waiting for a new crew, the train, with caboose No. 25650 carrying the markers, will ... (more)

Pittsburg & Shawmut’s Brookville Turn departs Markle, Pennsylvania with a train of 50-ton twin hoppers. By this time, these cars were limited to intra-line service.

Rio Grande caboose No. 01425 trails the Potash Local westbound over Thompson Hill just east of Thompson, Utah, in July 1984. The car has recently had its side windows skillfully plugged by the car... (more)

ATSF 999243 brings up the rear of a string of intermodal trailers as they pass under the semaphores at Joliet. Tom Golden photo.

ONR 104 is an ex-Canadian Pacific wood caboose done over with steel sides and ends, at North Bay, Ontario in June 1986.

CSX train Z013, the symbol for the rerouting of NS 23K, passes through Goodman Street Yard with three NS units as power. Working the yard is CSX Rochester - Batavia local B791, with an ex C&O cabo... (more)

MNNR 75 passes the historic White Bear Lake depot after dropping off a single lumber car in Hugo.