Rocks, Racks and Waiting After patiently sitting for B237, Q648, Q237 and finally more)

Formerly patched C&EI Buzzsaw on a hopper has lots its extra paint.

Fallen Flags The names of former Midwestern roads are still seen adorned on the sides of coal hoppers as these cars sit and wait for their next customer.

Full House The side by side yards of Union Pacific and BNSF look relatively full today with freight cars of various types, each having its own reason for being here. For example, the cove... (more)

Seaboard System With the merger of the Seaboard Coast Line with the L&N and all the other railroads that made up the Family Lines System complete on December 1982, the Seaboard System was ... (more)

Beginning with their second order of Dash 8 wide cab locomotives from GE in 1991, the Conrail Quality logo and slogan started to make its appearance on the motive power of Big Blue both new and ol... (more)

Purr-fect Transportation Thirty-nine years later, Chessie can still be found sleeping on her pillow. This pop art style of logo was the brainchild of Franklyn Carr in 1972 by combining a s... (more)

The initials of our nation’s eighth largest railroad at the time still proudly proclaim the name of Seaboard Coast Line. Painted on the side of this woodchip hopper in 1970 by Pullman Standard, t... (more)

Chicago & Eastern Illinois Obtained by the Missouri Pacific in 1967, the C&EI allowed the MoPac to gain direct access to Chicago from St. Louis. The C&EI would operate as a unit of MoPac ... (more)

Northern Empire After numerous requests and denials for merger and nearly 75 years after James J. Hill first suggested the idea, on March 2nd 1970 the Burlington Northern was born. Origina... (more)

With the train safe across the road, the conductor radios back to his engineer and discusses how far they are about to shove in these former ACL/SCL phosphate hoppers that have now been reassigned... (more)

Pieces of the I35 bridge still lay on top of this destroyed car. I posted this shot Aug. 1, 2008. Later that day I heard on the radio that this day was the 1 year anniversary of the collapse. That... (more)

Awaiting a certain fate.... (JCH -- 400D)

Even though this buzz saw logo officially stopped turning in 1982, it's nice to see it proclaiming this hopper car's original owner and remind people that Mo-Pac still delivers.

The damaged cars are still at the site of the I35 bridge collapse that happened Aug. 1 2007.