Two months old and still looking showroom fresh, a Great Lakes Carbon covered hopper is the last car of a Conrail train passing through Dekalb Junction, New York. These cars hauled calcined petrol... (more)

Some cars just sit around too much. This artwork decorates a large covered hopper car moving to a plastics plant in Chippewa Falls on Union Pacific. I'm no fan of graffiti art on modern railroads,... (more)

Not your Father's Scale Test Car
Wearing the eye catching orange paint typically found in MoW cars, this former Pullman Standard 4 bay covered hopper has been reclassified to another ... (more)

For some freight cars the end of the line is not necessarily the scrapper’s torch, but instead finding use somewhere else other than the railroad. This former Santa Fe covered hopper built in M... (more)

Hecho en México
A brand new cut of 3250 cubic foot covered hoppers intended for cement service and built in June of this year at the Gunderson Concarril plant in Mexico are in the pr... (more)

Second Chance
After a lengthy life on the railroad hauling the usual commodities of sugar, flour and starch, this beauty of a covered hopper built by General American in the mid-60s n... (more)

Identity Crisis
A former Penn Central covered hopper now with Conrail lettering but under Norfolk Southern ownership sits in the Roberta yard as it waits for another load of lime from... (more)

Still wearing its original paint applied by the Pullman Standard paint shop at Butler, PA in June of 1974, this PS2CD keeps the Milwaukee Road legacy alive even after its official demise in 1986.

Two iconic symbols of railroading in the late 1960s and early 1970s, PC "worms" and an ACI label, remain intact in 2013. This former Penn Central 890000-series Pullman Standard 4785 cu.ft. cover... (more)

Tony the Tagger
An eye-catching form of urban artwork is displayed along the curved sides of a normally dull looking covered hopper from Trenton works as it departs the Tilford yard o... (more)

This Eagle is still Screaming 30 years after the UP take over.

The Pioneer Railroad
Beginning in 1972 the Chicago and Northwestern began using an innovative ownership structure which allowed employees to purchase stock in the company and thus the... (more)

With the merger of the Gulf Mobile & Ohio (GM&O) to the Illinois Central on August 10, 1972, a new railroad name would be created, thus the Illinois Central Gulf was born. Along with a new name w... (more)

How Tomorrow Moves
Factory fresh from the Trinity Shops with a build date of October 2011, a set of brand new two bay covered hoppers more)

Penn Central
The worm logo, as it came to be called by observers, made its debut on Feb. 1 1968 with the creation of Penn Central Transportation Company. Ten years in the making, this... (more)