Expressway for Industry

The Detroit & Toledo Shore Line served industries in and between its namesake cities starting in 1903. The Shore Line supplied a lot of traffic to the Clev... (more)

BNSF shoving platform BN 12568, wearing a neatly applied if unauthorized graffiti scheme (complete with clear and legible reporting mark and roadnumber), brings up the rear of local R-CAL0162-28 a... (more)

Spotted in San Bernardino’s B Yard was waycar (what the Santa Fe called cabooses) 999630. This car was built in August 1948 (original four-digit number unknown), and rebuilt into a CE-3 class c... (more)

Built nearby. Built by CN in their Pointe St-Charles shops nearby here (now demolished), CN 79834 is being shoved through the Pointe St-Charles Yard before this train heads towards the Port... (more)

I Love the Smell of Metal Grinding in the Morning

Viewed from the Dutch door, the rear end brakeman on a Rio Grande rail grinding train watches dome-observation Silver Sky p... (more)

A Grande Gold caboose brings up the markers on an old-school Rio Grande camp train moving west through Palmer Lake, Colorado.

Beautiful day throws sun on this Peoria & Eastern Caboose. An Old Chessie cab now serves the Vermilion Valley Rail Road. A tribute to the former line that serves this site at Flex-N-Gate, Covingto... (more)

A wave from a caboose. Once a common sight, a wave from a caboose is not something you'll see often these days. With the Pointe St-Charles switcher in Montreal now assigned a caboose for lo... (more)

Followed Up with a Six-Pack A half-dozen Rio Grande cabooses bring up the markers of an eastbound bare table train in the sag between Spruce and Palmer Lake, Colorado.

A westbound Rio Grande manifest follows the Salt Creek toward the Colorado River at Mack, Colorado. At this point, the D&... (more)

A caboose and generator car brings up the rear od a Great Smoky Mountains Railroad train.

BN 10024 brings up the rear of a westbound manifest. An unusual catch in 2020.

Leased to Northern Plains railroad for use at the former Magnetation Jessie Loadout Facility location by Prairie River Minerals (PRM) this former Burlington Northern caboose painted into DM&IR col... (more)

The second shipment on Norfolk Southern using the world's second largest rail car approaches Assembly in Columbia, South Carolina. The load is destined for the VC Sumner Nuclear station in Jenkins... (more)

Sometimes you'll never know what you will find next to the road in somebody's front yard. Here, we have a fading L&N caboose that has seen better days. If this was in my front yard, I would turn i... (more)