While NS 20K goes about dropping off a set of cars into the River Yard, the PBNE 19 leads two other switchers as it brings a cut of double stacks through the car filled yard and past the famous Be... (more)

This side view of a compromise joint shows exactly what it’s meant to do, join rail of differing sizes. For another view of a compromise joint, more)

CAT-illac
A set of Caterpillar 325D excavators work in tandem to lift and move a section of track into the void created by the removal of the old switch from the mainline into the Vulc... (more)

No matter where you are in Colorado, it seems like one can find reminders of the Rio Grande almost anywhere. Here in Parker an all steel cupola caboose that was built by the Rio Grande’s Burnha... (more)

Tight-lock
A pair of long shank Type F couplers move past a blurring background as the wickedly fast Amtrak Auto Train r... (more)

On time as usual, the Rock & Rail makes an early morning delivery into the old Rio Grande yard with loads to drop off for interchange with the BNSF. They will soon depart with empty covered hoppe... (more)

The engineer on the left of the picture shoves a cut of cars into the West Departure tracks at Norfolk Southern's Norris Yard on a very rainy day. Thanks to the Southern Railway Historical Associ... (more)

A yard slug makes its way back to the Tilford hump in preparation of sorting some more cars on a chilly November afternoon.

A matched set of Santa Fe SD40-2 locomotives do the honors of pulling the second shift “hill cut” as they prepare to depart the former Santa Fe yard and work the Evraz mill south of here.

All sorts of interesting things are seen in the yard today such as a set of San Louis Rio Grande passenger cars awaiting pickup, a pair of BN and ATSF cabooses above those and some BNSF employees ... (more)

Triclops A Union Pacific SD60M leads a 10 locomotive consist on Q601 around the curve at Montgomery as it is about to cross over the Americus Branch. Included in the consist are 5 SD70MAC... (more)

Hoods Two of the 257 GP38-2 locomotive models that Southern Railway purchased in the early 70s sit coupled nose to nose and show off the obvious difference between how a high-hood and shor... (more)

A veteran Fruit Growers Express boxcar now finds itself storing miscellaneous yard materials instead of hauling fruit these days. While the paint scheme is still holding up fairly well, a new add... (more)

Not in Kansas anymore
A couple of visitors from both ends of the continental spectrum, that is the deep south and north of the border have seemed to of found their way to Pueblo this d... (more)

With any new merger comes the option of choosing a symbol to represent the new company, which is exactly what the newly created Norfolk Southern decided to do in 1982. A horse was chosen over the... (more)