Tanks a lot! 6 axle flatcars are rare, even more so when there are tanks aboard. DODX 40284 is part of a westbound CNW freight as is rumbles thru Blairstown, IA in May of 1991.

A 93 year old 40ft MOPAC boxcar sits on the Kansas & Oklahoma in Scott City, KS. It is stenciled BLT. 11-24.

Bogie change at the freight car

A lonely CNW ore car sits in the Escanaba, MI yard in August of 1984. If only this car could talk.....

Bogie change at the freight car

Both of Ameren Energy's Commemorative Hopper Cars move east on UP Train CWLNA9 24 past Edwardsville. The car on the left honors Ameren's Military Veteran Employees, and the other is for Breast Ca... (more)

Five export ES43ACi locomotives for Pakistan await pickup by CSX from the interchange track with GE in Erie, PA.

Back in 1972 I had the opportunity to access Milwaukee Road's Pigs Eye Yard and was able to get up close and personal with the retarder below the hump. Here a MILW cow-calf set has shoved a string... (more)

Just built by Bombardier Transportation at their Thunder Bay, Ontario plant, TTC 4432 rides on TTIX 158091 to Toronto, Ontario

Several beat up flatcars and trailers are part of a hospital train of wrecked cars heading to CNW's Butler Yard in April of 1986.

Fuel r' Up. A crew member is fueling NYCHRR S4 11 from a tank inside a former BEDT 40' boxcar.

Led by a pair of Union Pacific switchers, four brand new Amtrak RPO/Baggage cars head north along the former C&EI for delivery to Union Station. Tom Golden photo.

Former Minnesota Zephyr twins 788 and 787, both F7(A)'s, are blocked and chained for the trip to Alamosa, Colorado where they will once again find life running passengers for the San Luis Rio Gran... (more)

Anyone who spent much time trackside in the northeast United States between the mid 1950’s and mid 1970’s undoubtedly saw a boxcar from the Buffalo Creek Railroad, with the road’s distinctiv... (more)

The occasion of an empty flat car affords a view of a westbound manifest climbing the grade at the scenic location of Austin, MT, several miles west of Helena. Behind the five unit helper set of S... (more)