In the pre-dawn hours a string of tank cars slowly wend their way through the yard towards the hump.

A westbound BNSF Boeing Train with 737 fuselage's rolls past the abandoned west portal of Bozeman Tunnel on Montana Rail Link's 2nd Subdivision. The train has just passed through the "new" tunnel ... (more)

It's 5:28 AM and the yard switchers are busy shoving cars through the light fog and up and over the hump.

A tri-level auto carrier sits among combos and wheel sets in the Sanford yard. Amtrak no longer has any tri level auto carriers. Photo taken on RR property with permission.

BNSF’s all seeing eye
An interesting tag finds itself on the side of a BNSF beer car as it heads to North Yard for interchange with NS.

CP # 8577 is pulling a long doublestack freight through the lower spiral tunnel on the ascent to the Kicking Horse pass in the Canadian Rockies. Second, not visible locomotive was 9590 and pushing... (more)

Clean and not tagged with graffiti, around 1982 on the westward siding adjacent the N&W yard.

A quarter century has passed since the famed "Scenic Line of the World" has existed, yet this old hopper still carries the fallen flag's name around, seen here in Union Pacific's Hollywood Yard in... (more)

A colorful assortment of freight cars ranging from covered hoppers to wood racks fill the small yard at the Mar-Jac Poultry feed mill. P16's pair of former Burlington Northern SD40-2s are seen sho... (more)

This Auto Carrier's truck has been rolled out from underneath the car for some repairs. Taken on RR property with permission.

With a foreman occupying the block beside us, we turned our backs to the CP tracks and set our focus on the adjacent CN Kingston Sub. However, when we noticed this surprise round the corner, we we... (more)

A not so common sighting by the Great Lakes Central shops is the railroad's 25-tonner switching cars around the shop. The little critter is quite powerful and can move a decent string of cars.

In the past these have had GTW reporting marks but this one was lacking any type of identifying mark.

Soo Line's "Colormark" cars certainly lived up to the name! These colorful white, red and black cars were easy to spot among a train of dull brown freight cars. Built in May 1972, SOO 18496 was ... (more)

Think of refrigerator cars, and most railfans first think of Pacific Fruit Express, the joint venture of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. But for some of us, the Santa Fe's large fleet of refr... (more)