Work crews unload the first of 3 panel switches to be used as replacements in Kenwood Yard. The switches had been salvaged from unused sidings on the North End of the D&H.

Built in 8-1949, this ballast car was likely hauled over the pass in revenue service by massive Northern Pacific articulated locomotives. Designed for ballast service, this car also saw heavy u... (more)

A pan shot depicting the duality of the RoadRailer system used by Triple Crown Services.

Utah Railway's RUT309 local works at Thatcher Chemical via trackage rights on UP's Small Arms Plant Industrial Lead in the Glendale neighborhood of Salt Lake City. The 3000 is approaching its 42 b... (more)

A rather rare and kind of hot consist accelerates train 75 out of Aldershot on time. VIA 915 and 6457 look good with matching paint schemes.

The sun tries to break through the impending afternoon cloud movements and prevails one last time as it illuminates both the ex-Rio Grande and Santa Fe yards full of vintage equipment with the nam... (more)

Renewable
Couplers from scrapped railcars head into the BNSF yard where they’ll most likely be sent to a foundry that manufactures this railway component so their metal compositions ... (more)

This is rare to say the least. A Brandt Hi-Rail truck brings three IC ballast hoppers eastbound into the USRC.

LTEX 1210 Switches out the FoMoCo Ohio Truck Assembly Plant on a warm June day in Avon Lake, OH

Pigs and Pig Iron
A piggyback section of NS 20K passes in front of the famous Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces as this intermodal comes to a stop in River Yard to break down its train.

A Missouri Pacific Weed Sprayer Car, built in Dec. 1959, awaits its next call to serve parked in Union Pacific's Shoshone, Idaho yard. Check out the mixed red and green connectors atop the domes.

While it is much smaller than its counterpart in Owosso, the shop areas in Cadillac for Great Lakes Central hold some very cool artifacts that are waiting to rust away. A former Ann Arbor box car... (more)

After a heavy rain on a muggy and hot summer day, steam rose from the rails making this otherwise boring scene a bit interesting.

A new Cryo-Trans mechanical refrigerator car takes a break at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City. The CRYX 5825 was manufactured by Greenbrier of Lake Oswego, Oregon in Feb. 2013. The car is 72 feet ... (more)

Old Steel. Here is a trio of 1907 built ore cars. They made great cars in ballast service due to the manual doors on both ends. Loaned and later donated to the Lake Superior & Mississippi tourist ... (more)