Don’t tread on me
The “ACF Freight Saver” cushioned center sills of two coil cars gallop along the WofA mainline as the background blurs into the rearview. The 20 inch travel c... (more)

While the dominance of 40’ boxcars came to an end during the 1950s with the creation of the standard 50’ boxcar for general merchandise traffic, some 40 footers like this beauty from the Ameri... (more)

With the July 4th holiday weekend approaching, this yard switcher gets an early day off and basks in the July sun.

Hot Rail
The thermal effects of a recent field weld are evident on the web and top of the rail head at this new joint. The rail has just undergone an electric flash-butt welding proc... (more)

How tomorrow moves….Coils
One of the newest pieces of equipment built by Trinity Industries in 2012 is the 42’ Coil Car. This new rolling stock asset for CSX follows the current t... (more)

Mid-car America has been fixing up locomotives in the Kansa city area since 1978. Today a good variety of class I and leased power reside at their shops in a plethora of paint schemes.

No need to guess what fallen flag railroad this GP50 was acquired from, none other than the Chicago & North Western by the presence of that nose mounted bell. The “Big Daddy” as it’s called... (more)

Some days you get lucky
Upon hearing NS 336 call the interlocker at Opelika, I headed for Royal City to get a shot of the train since I expected the light to be good there. What I di... (more)

From this vantage point, you can see how the Type F (top, as indicated by the 'F70DE' lettering cast into it, Type H couplers have an 'H' cast into them) and Type E (bottom) couplers differ extens... (more)

A one month old Ferromex auto rack from the Trinity plant in Mexico follows the same trend set by Trinity for its rebuilds of older BNSF racks, that is the painting of the TTX flatcar into the sam... (more)

This Belle’s for you As the Shreveport to Birmingham freight train finally arrives into downtown Meridian, the recently painted KCS Southern Belle passes in front of the local Budweiser d... (more)

The Southway Crane & Rigging machine digs in as it begins to lift the A-end of GATX tank car number 69610 who fell in-between the gauge earlier in the day. more)

A bridge used by the MoPac on its former mainline into Pueblo frames up the rear DPU on an empty BNSF coal train. Once this bridge used to carry the Colorado Eagle, today it carries the tags of g... (more)

One of only two survivors from the Illinois Central 2500 class of steam locomotives, the IC 2542 still looks as good as the day when she was placed on this display track back in the summer of 2000... (more)

A former BNSF SD40-2, originally built in 1968 as an SD40 for the CN, now finds itself again working for BNSF but this time under the ownership of the BlendStar Corporation. This green energy pro... (more)