Rows of brand new Toyota Tacoma pickup trucks assembled at the automaker's Baja California, Mexico plant patiently wait their turn to be loaded onto empty auto racks. Since the plant has no direc... (more)

A small portion of the 240,000 ton annual output of steel pipe produced by the Berg Steel Pipe mill in Panama City rolls north on unit train K565. The pipe is longitudinal seam welded and has bee... (more)

The tail end of Q220 wobbles a bit as it heads out of the yard in Montgomery on this Independence Day morning. While all railroads strive for perfect track, it's sometimes hard to achieve and mai... (more)

From this vantage point it's easy to see how much elevation change this tank train has undergone as it moves off the original Santa Fe track and onto the ex-Rio Grande right of way. What isn't se... (more)

A very full Tilford Yard is beginning to embrace the warm rising sun this morning as the former L&N classification yard starts another day of sorting cars for CSX.

Built in December of 1969 and having outlived two mergers so far, this Ortner woodchip gondola still rides the rails under the Great Northern banner. Wearing that fallen railroad’s Big Sky Blue... (more)

A southbound unit tank train comes to a stop a few miles before Palmer Lake due to an opposing northbound lined through the single track section there. Stopping here at the transition area betwee... (more)

Unit trains are the name of the game in Pueblo these days as many types are seen at the former Rio Grande yard. From left to right we have a unit crude oil train, unit empty and loaded rail train... (more)

An endless line of crude oil tankers looking nearly as seamless as the rails they are moving atop, roll on into the horizon as they make their way back to an oil loading terminal out west.

Using two engines and two 12 axle KRL depressed center flatcars, the high and wide load of W984 maneuvers around the “new way” curve as it heads into Chester yard. The two loads measured 13 f... (more)

After completing its work on the 3 mile long Elyton Industrial Track, CSX Y198 returns with one empty center-beam, empty cement covered hopper and something odd at the front of its train. Usually... (more)

A quartet of UP power snakes its way off the East End District and onto the AGS South with numerous EMP green domestic containers heading back to LA. The Southern style signals protecting this ar... (more)

A veteran Fruit Growers Express boxcar now finds itself storing miscellaneous yard materials instead of hauling fruit these days. While the paint scheme is still holding up fairly well, a new add... (more)

Cruising along at 40mph and at an elevation of 5700 feet, a Boeing 737 fuselage flies through the Centennial State at the head end of today’s KCKPSO as it keeps climbing the grade towards Palmer... (more)

Remote Control
Known as the RCP-C or “sled”, this former pulpwood flatcar has been modified to act as a remote control platform. With an electrical cabinet on the B-end and multi... (more)