The time is near for the vintage passenger and MOW cars that used to be stored at the Union Pacific Burnham Shops. These cars, which can be seen in photos 413951 and 591196 were owned by Marcus R... (more)

This critter sat at the Deer Lodge engine facility. Looks like a Joe is getting ready over at the next stall, just another day for the laborer.

There are all sorts of interesting things to be found in the D&S yard. While all the attention is on the ex-D&RGW steam fleet, a cohort of GE switchers helps behind the scenes with switching and M... (more)

Norfolk Southern SD40-2 #3571 leads a MOW train through Natural Tunnel State Park in southwestern Virginia. The train is emerging from the 850 foot long tunnel carved out from a creek over a milli... (more)

Canadian Pacific's Delaware & Hudson painted this MOW gondola pink for breast cancer awareness. The gondola is seen at CP's Kenwood Yard loaded with wheels.

It's a Pumpkin Patch! This ex United States Army flat car is still in service, now for Amtrak. The original Army green and white lettering is still visible decades after it was built.

A Conrail MoW gondola sits on the remains of the old Lehigh & Hudson River main. The L&HR railroad was a bridge line running northeast-southwest across northwestern New Jersey. This was the L&HR m... (more)

Exactly 20 years ago today, 10/4/1996, the train crew of Camas Prairie train 63606 is approximately 6 hours into their day. At Cottonwood, the crew set out some grain hoppers and ran around their... (more)

Not your Father's Scale Test Car
Wearing the eye catching orange paint typically found in MoW cars, this former Pullman Standard 4 bay covered hopper has been reclassified to another ... (more)

On Haivoron's narrow gauge railway the track inspection team rides in style. Definitely a one of a kind piece of equipment. It even has its own turntable. This motorcar was originally built as a ... (more)

No turntable? No problem. WW&F Railcar RC4 brings her own turntable, and it only takes one crew member to jack her up, spin her and put her back on the rails.

Although most of Maine's ... (more)

In front of Hays Station. A Napierville Junction Railway MoW piece of equipment and two CP Century locomotives (M630 CP 4563 & C424 CP 4237) are seen in front of Hays Station at Exporail.

The Movie Star poses for her close-up. Shining in the warm, California sun, Sierra #3 tip-toes off the Jamestown turntable and heads for her stall in the fabled roundhouse that has been hom... (more)

Season's Greetings! Marquette Rail's 2010 Santa Train gets a friendly wave from a snowman as it approaches the tiny village of Fountain in northwest Michigan. This train makes multip... (more)

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