A new Cryo-Trans mechanical refrigerator car takes a break at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City. The CRYX 5825 was manufactured by Greenbrier of Lake Oswego, Oregon in Feb. 2013. The car is 72 feet ... (more)

Work continues to open the mainline at Walcott after a broken rail led to a derailment the weekend of Labor Day, 1977. Hulcher and Rock crews made good use of the spilled ballast.

Steam wrecker rainbow
A rainbow forms in the dry desert air as a member of the wrecker crew blows down the boiler of Nevada Northern Wrecking Crane A at Lavon siding on the Adverse Bran... (more)

This catenary maintenance and inspection vehicle has just finished working on the Morgan Drawbridge and is clearing the way for the next scheduled train. The storm surge from Hurricane Sandy inun... (more)

The BNSF Jordan Spreader has sat in the Denver Yard for years, hopeful that the call to duty will eventually come.

Kershaw Ballast Regulator is sweeping ballast on some newly dropped ballast on the Norfolk Southern Lurgan line. MOW keeps them moving

A rare 1913 GE diesel electric owned by the Minnesota Transportation Museum was used to haul tourists on Duluth's Lake Superior & Mississippi line in 1981. This locomotive was originally used on t... (more)

Proctor and Duluth fire fighters train on a special tank car designed for this purpose.

This interesting set of Dupont equipment (with NS logos) is used to train fire departments on tank car/chemical safety. It was on CN in Proctor.

Engineers Construction Inc. (ECI) crews are busy at work replacing the Elm Street multi-track crossing in St. Albans on the New England Central Swanton Subdivision. As crews positioned a section ... (more)

WM was always resourceful, with a touch of class. Never rich, they always did a great job with what they had. An old World War II troop sleeper was converted to a kitchen car for the MofW Depart... (more)

This rare Union Pacific 120-ton steam derrick is preserved at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah. No. 903037 was built by the Industrial Works as UP derrick 02781, and donated to the m... (more)

Rotary 101. Here's a rear-quarter view of Nevada Northern's 1907-vintage Rotary Snow Plow B. It's a slightly different look at this classic piece of MOW equipment than you typically see, a... (more)

PRR Clearance Car! Pennsylvania Railroad clearance car 497125 and a Reading caboose in the Geigertown Central yard. Does anybody know if this is the only PRR clearance car to still... (more)

Cresson, PA 2/23/2013 - Beheaded: Norfolk Southern SD-40 3200 has lost all but its cab as the scrappers turn this 1972-built EMD into piles of unrecognizable steel. Originally a Southern Railway S... (more)