Over the 4th of July weekend, this well car on NS 211 was damaged and then was set out on the Anacapri siding. Today's MA1 local had to move this car to get to there customer on the siding. For a ... (more)

A crew of two is shuffling cars around the ADM facility in Mexico. Top speed seemed to be some where around 3 or 4 mph.

Union Pacific 3095 West, train CLS (“California Live Stock”), pulls through the siding at ironically-named Dry Lake, Nevada, to drench and wet 18 triple-deck cars of hogs en route to customer ... (more)

Colorado’s newest and oldest unit trains meet each at the Pueblo Junction as they head to their respective customers. The newest, in the form of crude oil trains, is stopped on the former BN mai... (more)

These massive wind blade loads demonstrate their maneuverability atop drawbar connected 89’ flats as they head through the east leg of Pueblo Junction. Once this train is entirely on the BNSF m... (more)

Fresh paint (applied 9/14), sweet afternoon light and no graffiti? I can forgive the UP markings on this Cotton Belt Center Flow hopper, built in October 1979, given all the other elements!

A 40-foot Rock Island boxcar, along with a a pair of 50-foot Santa Fe plug-door boxcars (one not visible located behind these two), ended up being pretty nice storage units for someone at Slapout... (more)

Looking out the back door, playing around with a slow shutter resulted in this frame at 1/10sec. Heading out-a-town with a load of dirt in a Western "difco" side dump car, pulled by the ... (more)

The rear of NS 980 swings around the curve just north of Norris on a warm April afternoon. The object on the depressed flat is an electrical transformer headed for a power plant up north.

A single Espee tunnel motor helps four DRGW sisters with a westbound freight leaving Grand Junction for the emptiness of eastern Utah.

The Pennsylvania Railroad had 550 Class R50b express refrigerator cars. Built with four-wheel passenger trucks, they were designed for speed, largely to transport milk to urban markets. This examp... (more)

BNSF's eastbound Provo, Utah trackage rights manifest is about to duck into a cloud covered scene just west of Leyden near Arvada at a location call Chemical.

Illinois Central 1937 Box Car #41390

Color photograph from my collection -captured here in a pan, a 1937 steel box car built for the Illinois Central Railroad - the Main Line of Mid-Ameri... (more)

Wabash 1941 Box Car #82697

Here's an old photo from way back in 2014 featuring an old 1941 built Wabash box car within a consist moving eastbound on the Illinois Central line. This once ... (more)