70 Floating hoppers and tumbleweeds

While traveling down highway 70/84 between Texico and Lubbock, Texas, I hoped to see some BNSF trains along the route. Never did I expec... (more)

A Conrail GP30 and N5C cabin car occupy the Ford Lead in Teterboro, NJ. Both trace their heritage to the Pennsylvania Railroad via Penn Central. The Ford Lead is former Erie/Erie Lackawanna indu... (more)

A fresh coat of Heritage III paint makes BN Caboose 2408 shine in the sun as it sits in a yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

A Santa Fe caboose punctuates a string of empty CWR cars leaving Palmer Lake, Colorado. The rock formation in the upper left is Palmer Lake’s Elephant Rock.

Found in BNSF High Priority Merchandise train H-BARPAS7-18, passing through Kansas City on a long detour as it heads from Barstow CA to Pasco WA, is Trinity Industries Leasing Co. 6351 cubic foot ... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific manifest freight climbing Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, has TTX flat No. 97920 carrying a pair of two-track John Deere tractors in the consist. On the left is a... (more)

Milwaukee Road GP20 at Ash crossing with a transfer job

Indiana Harbor Belt caboose #31 is performing its shoving duties into Blue Island Yard for the 515 Job this afternoon. During better years, the stripes on this veteran caboose were a much nicer sh... (more)

See Richmond By Rail! This colorful mural depicting the James River Bridge and and an artistic version of Richmond, Fredrick and Potomac (RF&P) E8A 1001 can be seen from the platform at the... (more)

The Other Mopac

Based in Souderton, Pennsylvania, the Moyer Packing Company, at one point the ninth-largest beef processor in the United States, called itself Mopac. The other Mopa... (more)

A CP empty grain train rolls east under a westbound CN freight at Cisco, BC where the two lines swap sides of the Fraser River Canyon south of Lytton, BC. Directional running is in place.

Sharp looking cars cut the diamond. On July 18, 2020, Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleeper 313 (WEBX 801044) and former New York Central Railroad Budd built ... (more)

You know my name. While BNSF no longer comes to the station in Santa Fe Railway Santa Fe, New Mexico, it is the present day domain Santa Fe Southern Railway. SFSR 07 (GP 7u, neé ATSF 2744 GP7) an... (more)

The Northern Pacific Woodinville Sub/Branch is gone from here, the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train is gone, but back in 1993 a Brunch Train operated north from Renton to Woodinville, WA with a p... (more)