"What the heck is that!?" A very interesting load sitting on the siding in Talkeetna, Alaska. This load must be going up to the northern part of Alaska where there is a lot of snow. This load must... (more)

14 Export engines , Cats , and tractors , plus trucks on flats for engines notice the trucks on flat car are narrow gauge trucks a of very different type entering Enola yard. Engines may be exp... (more)

Separated by a century of rail progress, a new BNSF 9083 (Mexico built in late 2012) pushes a Powder River Basin coal train past a D&RG cattle car that was built in 1904.

Two GG1 with a freight at Elizabeth, NJ

A hot and humid Sunday morning finds a two man crew hard at work at the Minnesota Commercial yard in St. Paul, MN switching cars and making trains.

SP Flanger at Dunsmuir - An SP Flanger sits idle in the yard at Dunsmuir awaiting the start of another Winter season in the Siskiyous.

Cambria & Indiana RR coal cars are in the consist of a train rolling by on the main. C&I was nowhere near Indiana, the state, but revenues per mile of track for the small RR were the greatest of ... (more)

Some bonus on a normally uniform train. P080, daily Amtrak "Carolinian" from Charlotte, NC to New York City rolls though Ashland, VA with an Ex- Seaboard Pullman "Hollywood Beach" and Milwaukee Ro... (more)

Add this to your "must-see" list of Heritage units. Fresh from the Progress Rail paint shop and just in time for Tacoma Rail's annual Open house.

If you're going to crash, might as well make it spectacular. Southern Railway's new aluminum "silver side" coal hoppers detailed atop a trestle near Frisco, Tenn. and the Big Hook was uprighting ... (more)

Renewable
Couplers from scrapped railcars head into the BNSF yard where they’ll most likely be sent to a foundry that manufactures this railway component so their metal compositions ... (more)

Former Carolina Southern F7 9163 stored in the yard at Alamosa.