Beginning with their second order of Dash 8 wide cab locomotives from GE in 1991, the Conrail Quality logo and slogan started to make its appearance on the motive power of Big Blue both new and ol... (more)

This logo on a P&S hopper car was showing its age when photographed on June 5, 1991 in Brockway, PA.

the Action road Built for the Rio Grande in 1963 by American Car and Foundry, this fifty foot double door boxcar was intended to haul copper bullion from plants in Utah and even equipped w... (more)

Purr-fect Transportation
Thirty-nine years later, Chessie can still be found sleeping on her pillow. This pop art style of logo was the brainchild of Franklyn Carr in 1972 by combinin... (more)

The initials of our nation’s eighth largest railroad at the time still proudly proclaim the name of Seaboard Coast Line. Painted on the side of this woodchip hopper in 1970 by Pullman Standard,... (more)

A "wagon top" caboose, Baltimore and Ohio C 2445 is preserved at Grafton. Here, the famous "Linking 13 Great States With The Nation" logo still looks good on the old caboose's side.

Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Obtained by the Missouri Pacific in 1967, the C&EI allowed the MoPac to gain direct access to Chicago from St. Louis. The C&EI would operate as a unit of M... (more)

Speed Lettering
After being purchased by the Rio Grande in 1988, the newly combined Rio Grande and Southern Pacific railroads retained the name of Southern Pacific but revamped the log... (more)

Northern Empire
After numerous requests and denials for merger and nearly 75 years after James J. Hill first suggested the idea, on March 2nd 1970 the Burlington Northern was born. Or... (more)

The "Frisco" logo refuses to give up on the side of a derelict SLSF caboose in Springfield, MO on Oct. 16, 1999.

Service by Design
Started in 1989, BN America had since become a premiere intermodal service provider registering movements of over 200,000 containers a year at one point. Due to such... (more)

Grande Gold
The Rebel of the Rockies first started applying this 6 foot tall version of its speed lettered logo on locomotives starting in 1968 with their last order of SD45s. From t... (more)

Before the corporate noodle that engulfed everything, CN was a more homely railway with the simple yet truthful slogan of "Serves All Canada". This was, of course, back when CN was a crown corpora... (more)

The Family Lines System
Only operating from 1974 to 1982, this conglomerate of Southeast Railroads were able to coordinate their operations, facilities, motive power and rolling stock... (more)

"Icons of a Lost era" The B&O Capital logo and the "Bar Code" gone but not forgotten.