One of the more odd loads to go through the Denver Yard was this Boeing 737 (Serial Number 3742).

Over 8,000 tones of worn Abrams tanks are seen being slugged upgrade into Woodford on a warm afternoon on Tehachapi. Making a somewhat rare appearance on a DODX train, two mid-train DPU's can be s... (more)

What I’m guessing is a three-phase circuit breaker is being delivered to a utility customer on an Illinois Central Gulf flat in this November, 1988 view at Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Lions and Tigers (No Bears)! Oh My!

In the 1990’s, I photographed the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey’s circus trains quite a few times. For me, along with seeing the lon... (more)

It's a Pumpkin Patch! This ex United States Army flat car is still in service, now for Amtrak. The original Army green and white lettering is still visible decades after it was built.

Folks don't usually think of freight cars when they hear the name Amtrak, but Amtrak maintains a rather extensive fleet of freight cars to maintain its owned and leased portions of right of way. ... (more)

Heavy Stuff

With the sprawling General Electric complex in Schenectady as a major on-line shipper, the Delaware & Hudson had to maintain a fleet of special-use flat cars. That flee... (more)

Horizon un-level....oh wait it's just the truck
The A end truck of this rail flatcar has run over a piece of wood cribbing used to separate the layers of rail that were once inside th... (more)

A pair of Union Pacific MoW rail flat cars show off nearly perfect symmetry in the UP Pueblo yard. If these flatcars look somewhat solid, that's because they are. These cars were built by Genera... (more)

A specially designed flatcar for the transportation of switches glides past the Wabtec plant.

From this vantage point, you can see how the Type F (top, as indicated by the 'F70DE' lettering cast into it, Type H couplers have an 'H' cast into them) and Type E (bottom) couplers differ extens... (more)

During the summer of 2011, when floods wreaked havoc with rail service in the Midwest, the BNSF hauled Boeing 737-800 fuselages through Denver. This particular plane now flies for Delta Airlines.... (more)

No Meet No Pass and for good reason... Four Boeing planes are on the point of a manifest climbing up the gooseneck, heading across the Hannibal Bridge into North Kansas City. The tight corn... (more)

A unique load spotted in the Denver Yard was this brand new Caterpillar scraper.

"What the heck is that!?" A very interesting load sitting on the siding in Talkeetna, Alaska. This load must be going up to the northern part of Alaska where there is a lot of snow. This load must... (more)