From this vantage point it's easy to see how much elevation change this tank train has undergone as it moves off the original Santa Fe track and onto the ex-Rio Grande right of way. What isn't se... (more)

Anticipation - Approaching headlights (from BNSF C44-9W #709, not pictured) reflect off the rain soaked sides of a long string of Montana Rail Link 50 ft. boxcars stored in the hole ... (more)

Goat Canyon - The rail line through the Carrizo Gorge was constructed starting in 1906 and it opened in 1919. Here, an old Santa Fe hopper stands on a siding at Goat Canyon next to the ... (more)

CN has recently taken delivery of several containers used to keep the air charged on long trains. They seem to be using them on manifest trains as well.

Special train seen from the running train

Two BNSF Z trains meet in the incredible scenery of Kingman Canyon. This was my first visit here.

High & Wide
A massive Air Products heat exchanger is carefully shepherded along the Lehigh Line by a pair of Norfolk Southern Dash 9s. Air Products personnel ride in an appropriately ... (more)

When Utah Transit Authority was building its new tracks between Salt Lake City and Ogden adjacent to Int.15 most of the way, it painted its ballast cars with its new FrontRunner red, white and blu... (more)

Passenger cogwheel railcar BDhe 4/4 # 104 from 1951 with 4 axle tank cab car Uat 820 brought 20 ton fuel oil to Kleine Scheidegg and is now on the way back down to Lauterbunnen. On the tank there ... (more)

A very full Tilford Yard is beginning to embrace the warm rising sun this morning as the former L&N classification yard starts another day of sorting cars for CSX.

Lone White Pass & Yukon wood box car sits at the top of White Pass on the Canadian side of the US & Canada border. The old box car is used for shelter when the weather gets bad. The couplers and a... (more)

Vestiges of the old SP still haunt many places in California but are disappearing. These old water cars sit quitely in Guadalupe

ON a cold snowy day NS 098HAs Vale Locomotive # 258 bringing up the rear of the train of 10 locomotives to be delivered to Brazil

A Florida East Coast Mi-Jack Series III loads a Walmart trailer onto TTRX No. 552420 at the ramp in FEC’s Fort Pierce Yard on January 10, 2015. Walmart has a distribution center nearby and readi... (more)

Time is getting short now for the steam operations at Saiccor in Umkomaas on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast, with diesel traction replacement expected soon. Saiccor No. 3, ex South African Railway... (more)