Homemade
After being introduced 6 years ago in 2008, one of the newest car designs for the growing double-stack sector is finally making its way into the intermodal pool; FreightCar Am... (more)

Four Boeing 737 fuselages fly through Fountain as the KCKSPO enters into a curve to the right and continues north through the Centennial state.

Ex-Greenwich & Johnsonville engine 4116 sits out behind the shops and office of the Batten Kill Railroad. The Batten Kill has received are number of these COVX spines and are storing them between ... (more)

It isn't often that you find equipment freshly painted in BN's Cascade Green scheme. This box car looks sharp on display at Bandana Square, a former NP shop complex now used for offices, a hotel a... (more)

Spikes
When a tie replacement is under way, one of the other fundamental things being replaced other than ties are spikes and lots of them as evident here. An original Atlantic Coast ... (more)

No, not a novel car washer but rather an embarrassing remnant of a derailment higher up on the mountainside and empty covered hopper 98326 rolled down into Saint Joe River near Kyle, Idaho. Sinc... (more)

With the dormant and stripped former DM&IR ore dock No. 5 as a backdrop, a large front end loader fills side dump cars at Hallett Dock. The limestone is used in the production of taconite pellets ... (more)

A former Grainbelt covered hopper damaged in a derailment several years ago now serves as an overhead feed bin on a farm West of Ringwood, OK. A closer inspection of what seems to be an otherwis... (more)

Tanks and trucks, westbound. CN 705 (an empty oil train) has a good 50 or so flat cars with military equipment destined for Wainwright, Alberta. For a photo of the head end of this t... (more)

The weekly Norfolk Southern high and wide special - symbol 058 - is seen on the approach to Enola Yard with NS SD60E leading a short train that includes the final British Railways - Colas Railway ... (more)

Stacks marching by: A westbound Union Pacific double stack train cruises by at Hermosa, Wyoming, after sunset on March 25, 2008.

These are the ore cars that haul the ore that builds the country. On the left is a northbound train of BNSF ore cars led by BNSF 6864 bound for U.S. Steel, Minntac and on the right is a southboun... (more)

A rare move of a BNSF ore train down CN's Proctor Hill. A washout on BNSF coupled with the need for ore at U.S. Steel mills in Alabama and Illinois resulted in this unusual move. CN operated the t... (more)

BN 1792 rolls an eastbound Mansfield local past empty grain box cars as it begins its climb through the Palisades and up to the Mansfield plateau. This train typically ran once weekly handling gra... (more)

Burlington Northern Santa Fe tank car No. 99911 is a training car used within BNSF’s Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response (TRANSCAER) program across the railroad’s system.... (more)