Something you don't see every day: An MP15T pushes five office cars carrying 'important' employees on an otherwise completely disused track near the port. This piece of track used to serve several... (more)

BNSF covered hopper 486868 is adorned with a Colorado & Southern emblem as part of BNSF's Legacy fleet.

Have a great finalization of the year, and my best wishes for 2014 to the RP community!

As it sits on the fuel track, the BNSF 1543 gest passed by a tank car that has seen some better days and is oddly enough being carried by a former Southern Railway auto rack flatcar still wearing ... (more)

The Grande “Action Road” logo is still looking good on this Bethlehem 3483 cuft quad hopper as it hauls another load of black diamonds through the Centennial State. This particular hopper was... (more)

Burlington Northern train 144 crosses one of the truss bridges over the Sinsinawa River west of Portage, Illinois, on the morning of June 5, 1993. This location is on the BN main line along the Mi... (more)

Milwaukee Road's contribution to the bicentennial shows off signs of its former red, white, and blue scheme. Tom Bowers photo.

A side view of some of the interesting high-wide loads moving from Duluth to an oil refinery project in Manitoba. This cut of cars would be doubled with another cut to make a train of 50 total car... (more)

Back in 1995, the Union Pacific converted four tank cars to serve as diesel fuel tenders. The program placed a single tank car between two new General Electric C44ACs assigned to unit coal trains ... (more)

"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)

This is the shell of former NP RS-11 905 (BN 4185) which was purchased in 1988 as a parts source and by 2000 it had done its part to keep the LTV Steel Mining Co. RS-11 fleet running. This shell ... (more)

CNW 4257 greets a bright morning sun at Iron Mountain coupled to a ancient flat car with what appeared to be a wheel less travel trailer. Surely it was in company service of some kind maybe for a ... (more)

The ever resourceful Missabe Road. Take an ore car and repurpose it for other uses and it would be a neat addition to the HO scale layout.

Rotary Couplers on XCLX Aluminum Coal Hoppers in Boulder, CO on November 18, 2013.

Even some of the best rail will need to be replaced eventually.