A New Castle Industrial Railroad SW1500 drills the small yard in New Castle, Pennsylvania, sorting empty scrap cars that were pulled from the Ellwood Mill Products facility in the background.

Pulling A Box Out Of A Box. Genesee Valley Transportation DL 1044 (née-South Buffalo 44, S6, Alco, 12/1956) is the regular power and that works the former Lehigh Valley and New York Centra... (more)

A former Santa Fe SD45-2B is seen stored at Coast Rail Services in Anaheim.

Out in the Yard. NYNJ Rail 5101 creeps through the 65th Street Yard shoving a single empty gondola. The barge from New Jersey will be arriving soon, and the empty car will serve as a rea... (more)

Canadian National L544 cruises alongside Route 2 as it comes into Nahma, Michigan on the Upper Peninsula. A former GTW SD40-2 leads a loaded scrap gon and a short train of empty log cars.

An up close and personal view shows the loading process as mine run C612 inches along at less than a mile per hour loading its train with Kentucky black diamonds.

Temporary Platform Gondolas were recently converted from MOW gons by the Bear shops and deployed to support a track work project on the NEC. They allow high level boarding from the center track wh... (more)

Waiting for apposing traffic, an eastbound BNSF coal train sits in the siding at Winston, Montana, in the background as a westbound BNSF manifest freight grinds by, filling the curves on the appro... (more)

Just a few meters to the finish: 408 224 arrives with the local from Salgótarján with some scrap metal. It gets ever rarer to see this type working on lines, as there are only four of them in M�... (more)

Burlington Northern Cascade green heritage of this woodchip gon at Woodlin, Montana, shows through current owner Montana Rail Link’s paint scheme and logo, which itself is almost weathered away.

Denver Rock Island Railroad's SW1500 #1083 pulls a load of scrap iron across Packinghouse Road.

”When Empty Return To…”

Well, maybe not this time. This Air Products and Chemicals liquid oxygen tank car is on a one-way trip to an appointment with a torch. The PC mill gon... (more)

The cab on NS U47 rolls slowly by MOW equipment stored at Kent Junction on the ex-Interstate Railroad's Pardee Branch. U47 is pulling empties to the Roaring Fork loader located at the end of Pine ... (more)

The daily run of autoracks from Louisville, KY to Dixiana, SC sees a former Conrail SD60 with marker lights illuminated doing some quick yard work. They are in the process of setting off a few ca... (more)