Even in 2018, a caboose is a conductors best friend! Norfolk Southern local L91 has gone into town to switch the industries, and is seen here shoving back to East Wayne Yard with former N&W caboos... (more)

Santa Fe caboose 999816 trails a piggyback train disappearing into the fog in McCook, IL in November of 1986.

Penn Central SW1500 no. 9224 is parked at Ashland Avenue with NYC caboose 21023. This trackage, or at least some of it belongs to the Chicago River and Indiana Railroad, one of several transfer ro... (more)

The cab on NS U48 rolls across the wooden trestle over Roaring Fork Creek approaching Roaring Fork.

The conductor gets a breath of fresh autumnal air as he waits in the passing siding for his train to return from a switching move, in 1984.

In mid-1985, U.S. railroads started operating trains without cabooses on the end, so when we saw this hack in March 1988, it was a pleasant surprise indeed. Westbound Santa Fe manifest at Woodford... (more)

A manifest freight rolls east through Willow Creek Junction on the Michigan Central (NYC) Porter Branch in 1979. The street crossing is Willow Creek Road and the rail crossing is the former Baltim... (more)

Photo was taken through an open window from inside the interlocking tower in 1979. The westbound train is passing through Willow Creek Junction on the Garrett Subdivision. I thought the old B&O ca... (more)

The tail end of all freight trains back in the 1960s had one of these.

Westbound climbing the slope

The B063 has just finished laying rail for the day and is shoving backwards to the siding at FS, where it'll tie down for the evening. Lucky for me, this train would spend the better part of the n... (more)

A yard crew out of Andover Yard shoves "Big Red" empties along the ex-Southern's St. Charles branch. The empties are destined to Holton, located on a short spur off the branch near Exete... (more)

Remnants of the Soo Line linger in CP's Muskego Yard as a new GP20-ECO switches alongside an inbound manifest from Chicago.

Amid rusting narrow gauge trucks and hoppers, a Fall Spectacular photo freight turns on the wye in Rockhill Yard.

A GP7, some cabooses and a solarium car. GP7 CN 4803, cabooses THB 70 & CN 79144 and solarium car Cape Race are seen among the many skyscrapers and condos of downtown Toronto. In bet... (more)