Although the symbol of luxury rail travel in their day, these two cars look small compared to today’s gleaming behemoths that Amtrak uses. The bigger dome car named Grand Dome is SP 3604 and wa... (more)

One of the more unusual loads I have seen - these large spools were spotted on a UP siding in Ft Collins.

One of two tiny stretches of street running in Tacoma. This one is BNSF's line, delivering a couple loads of ethanol to the refinery at the north end of "D" street. The crewmen is a keeping a c... (more)

While the dominance of 40’ boxcars came to an end during the 1950s with the creation of the standard 50’ boxcar for general merchandise traffic, some 40 footers like this beauty from the Ameri... (more)

An interesting dimensional load, QTTX 131631 is carrying a portable steam generator system manufactured by Innovative Steam Technologies in Cambridge, Ontario. The two D5s were cut into the train ... (more)

Homemade
Designed and built by the quality UP Employees at the railroad's DeSoto Shops in Missouri, the UP AutoFlex holds 15 patents and is the only auto rack that can be adjusted to t... (more)

The Rio Grande transported solid fuel rocket motors for Hercules at Baccus, Utah to military installations via refrigerated containers on 53 ft. flat cars. Car 80003B, part of an A-B articulated s... (more)

The always resourceful Rio Grande converted a group of sand hoppers to haul ballast in the late 1970s. Built in Feb. 1951, this remodeled car (with the original roof removed) awaits its next assig... (more)

What Luck! As I hear the horn of a westbound S LPCLBJ stack approaching, I focus my attention to an eastbound stack train. After it passes by me, I realize I wont be able to shoot the west... (more)

Several TTX flatcars loaded with brand-new Oshkosh Corporation MRAP All-terrain vehicles (M-ATV) are heading south through Sussex, Wisconsin, on April 22, 2010, on Canadian National’s former Wis... (more)

A worker on Utah Railway's RUT211 local lines a switch on the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe spur at Ironton. The extended height TCMX hopper is loaded with coking coal, utilized in pipe production... (more)

"St. Patrick's Day Rest"

Grain and Ethanol Under the Sun. Trinity hoppers and tanks are the predominant rolling stock utilized in northern South Dakota. These cars are being sorted by the yard job minutes before th... (more)

Rio Grande's Provo switcher sets out a loaded flat car on the Anderson Lumber spur on 6th South at 1st West in Provo. This industrial trackage is all gone today.

Freight cars roll by a 1949 Chevrolet pickup waiting at Edwards Lane grade crossing at Heber, Utah, on February 6, 2007, including a couple of nice looking tank cars. This steam-powered freight wa... (more)