If you ever wondered what happened to some of Amtrak’s ExpressTrak reefer cars, the answer can be found in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. In this view from September 1, 2013, a group of the cars ... (more)

" Expansion " . The Naugatuck RR's Plan to expand their shop yard is well under way as volunteer crews work hard laying track (in background). At the same time, new spikes are waiting to b... (more)

A Plasser & Theurer tamper leads a parade of MOW equipment eastbound on the Kearney sub.

A UP welder that's been working on the crossing behind him is looking at the rails of the Mineola Sub as loaded well cars pass over them. He's watching for fractures in the rails he could fix whil... (more)

As C&NW and SP power idles in the yard, a downhill freight passes on one of the two main line tracks.

A car rolls through the computer-controlled retarders at East Hump while being sorted for eastern destinations at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 3, 2011. Retarders... (more)

Looking like giant pieces from an Erector Set, a maze of steel holds up Union Pacific’s impressive Joso Bridge over the Snake River near Joso, Washington, on September 20, 2015.

Retiro Mitre Terminal, the biggest in Argentina, with a recently renewal of main hall and exterior facade.

At the end of a cold January day in 1983, the setting sun silhouettes Duplainville tower. The diamond at Duplainville, Wisconsin, featured Soo Line’s main line crossing a double-track Milwaukee ... (more)

Moving day came for the Silver Top. Here it was being placed on a low boy to be trucked to a temporary storage space in a rail yard at Chehalis, Washington. For the last 20 years the car had bee... (more)

The orange logo lives on, although most passers-by likely do not know what it represents. Between the Clark Fork River and the University of Montana, this is the former Milwaukee Road mainline in ... (more)

In the car shop, a couple of D&S crew go about rebuilding a truck on one of the excursion cars.

Sometimes things just don't go as planned. I had often thought about catching a lengthy freight at this location but looking in the other direction. The tracks hug the shoreline and lengthy freigh... (more)

Where once the Colorado Eagle sailed westward to the Rockies and Missouri Pacific freight trains rumbled to and from Pueblo interchanging tonnage with the Rio Grande is now a rusting and forlorn a... (more)