For over 100 years, the crew of a caboose would look over passing trains for defects. This task is becoming harder to photograph. But the Union Railroad in Pittsburgh still uses cabooses, making... (more)

For a brief period of time, the Union Railroad used five ex-B&LE SD38-2's in road service. Four of the big EMD's were heading south thru East Pittsburgh with an ore train from North Bessemer. Th... (more)

I took this shot for the sake fo the unusual caboose.

The Union Railroad shoves through East Pittsburgh with loads of scrap for USX's Edgar Thompson (ET) Steel Works in North Braddock. ET is located just beyond the Westinghouse Bridge in the distance... (more)

With a fresh load of coke from the ovens of Clairton, five Union MP15's drift through the S-Curve at the south end of Duquesne Yard.

A pair of cooler equipped Union MP15's negotiate their way through the tight confines of Duquesne Yard as the sun sets on a pleasant late winter day.

A URR caboose is being used as a shoving platform leading this empty hopper train until the train clears the switch and goes the other way.

URR 17 heads light about to cross over NS's Port Perry Branch.

Shadows hide the creeping empty Union RR train clinging to the mountainside, as the Turtle Creek valley still basks in the spring sunshine.

The Caboose Hat Trick! All URR trains still operate with cabooses. The rear of a loaded coke train backs over the Port Perry Bridge while across the Monongahela River, a light power move switche... (more)

Union plated over the side cab window on this unit but left the rear windows for some strange reason. Her she's getting ready to go to work early on a summer morning. I really like the extra wal... (more)

We you get a chance to sit down & get out of the wind and snow and get warm around a caboose stove you develop a grudging affection for them. This one is the height of simplicity but I'd bet they... (more)

It's early morning and the railroad is going to work. Apparently someone decided they didn't need the cab on the front unit so the just plated it over. Love those old cars.

One man's noise is another man's music. That definitely applies to rap and water buffalos. A water buffalo in Run 8 is pure music and rap ain't. Still in green, this mixed up monster is conduct... (more)

Five MP15's shove a coke train through J Tower. Across the river are two URR cabooses and a US Steel SW1500.