As Southern Pacific train CIPTT (City of Industy CA to Portland OR Trailers) passes us while ascending Cajon Pass, we get a good look at the Swift Trucking Roadrailers that make up this train. Wi... (more)

A pair of Boeing 737 fuselages take a ride west over Bozeman Pass.

The mountains seem to create their own weather, which caused a rainbow on an otherwise sunny day.

End of train somewhere on the Joint Line

The commemorative Pier 6 Hopper is in the consist of the U05, headed East into the yard at Williamson.

A number of these army vehicles were on the head end of this BNSF (MRL) westbound exiting the tunnel at the summit of Bozeman Pass.

After completing its work on the 3 mile long Elyton Industrial Track, CSX Y198 returns with one empty center-beam, empty cement covered hopper and something odd at the front of its train. Usually... (more)

A rare Saturday morning barge job begins the slow and steady task of loading barge #931 at the Annacis Rail Marine Terminal. With the low tide, the tank cars have a pretty large grade to descend o... (more)

The UP brings in a unique load on a flatbed to the 36th Street Yard - the generator section of a Vestas wind turbine.

A Maryland & Pennsylvania CF7 spots a car at Keystone Color Works in 1996.

The photographer's first trip to Altoona after the mating of the worms in February, 1968, and no signs of changes at the former PRR car shops in Altoona..yet.

One of several export GEs destined for Mozambique is in consist on westbound manifest 11R passing through Boiling Springs on the NS Lurgan Branch.

Sometimes the engines aren't the most interesting thing on the train. The Produce Express has just left the Rotterdam, NY Railex facility bound for the west coast. These new Cyro Trans refers caug... (more)

What I did on my Summer vacation, redux: High and wide loads run around the hump in Selkirk Yard; following the DO NOT HUMP placards on each of the loads. SD40-2s 8850 and 8851 slowly navigate th... (more)