Rail King RK 320 No. 96 switches a freshly-painted C&NW covered hopper at Union Pacific’s De Soto car shops at De Soto, Missouri, on September 29, 2011. This Cummins-powered mobile railcar mover... (more)

One of the crew members stands by as a set of cars are shoved back to hook up with CGLX 1382. They were busy moving cars around in the GATX Rail facility in Colton, CA when I stopped by after my ... (more)

Mty Hoppers Head North (timetable West) into Natural Tunnel.

The crew has just extracted 3 empties from the Berry Plastics Corporation, and are now shoving the remaining cars plus one additional car back.

A southbound unit tank train comes to a stop a few miles before Palmer Lake due to an opposing northbound lined through the single track section there. Stopping here at the transition area betwee... (more)

What at first glance appears to be three separate manifests is actually the LOQ32S Sunday Kaiser Hauler rounding the loop at PEPPER behind the usual grouping of SD60s and a Genset.

Montana Rail Link GP9 No. 109 peaks through an empty log flat while switching Thompson River Lumber east of Thompson Falls, Montana, on January 20, 2013. The crew is ready to head back to Paradise... (more)

Wrecked back in July in Sewickley, Pa, UP 5594 is finally being transported from Conway Yard to Curry Supply Company in Hollidaysburg, PA. It is still unknown what will become of this unit. Cano... (more)

A lone SD40-2 is seemingly swallowed by freight cars in BNSF's primary Twin Ports yard.

A colorful gaggle of box cars trail Southern Pacific's Salt Lake City to Denver manifest through Riverton on Sept. 18, 1995.

Unit trains are the name of the game in Pueblo these days as many types are seen at the former Rio Grande yard. From left to right we have a unit crude oil train, unit empty and loaded rail train... (more)

MCVX 911119 is a classroom designed to instruct emergency responders the appropriot way to handle potential incidents involving Oil trains. The coastline will potentially pick up more oil traffic,... (more)

Union Pacific brought this interesting piece of equipment to SLO. This boxcar is a classroom designed to instruct emergency responders the appropriot way to handle potential incidents involving Oi... (more)

An endless line of crude oil tankers looking nearly as seamless as the rails they are moving atop, roll on into the horizon as they make their way back to an oil loading terminal out west.

Using two engines and two 12 axle KRL depressed center flatcars, the high and wide load of W984 maneuvers around the “new way” curve as it heads into Chester yard. The two loads measured 13 f... (more)