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

AT&SF crosstie unloader "walking" his tractor from one car to the next at Spruce, CO.

What's that funny looking car at the end of the train? Union Pacific's SLC-Provo turn glides north along the D&RGW with loads of coil and plate steel from Geneva Works. I like how the crew customi... (more)

Steel Circle of Life
With their days of rolling along the Nation’s railroad behind them, scrap wheels of which some were cast in Calera, Alabama now find themselves at the more)

Every autumn about half of Switzerlands sugarbeet production is transported to the sugar factories in Frauenfeld and Aarberg by rail. Local producers are loading their sugarbeets in Hüntwangen-Wi... (more)

An interesting looking unit train of sand in gondolas rolls through Opelika after a meet with Q145. Usually sand travels i... (more)

CP1597 and SD40-2 CP6607 switch out several scrap gons.

CW 205 shoves scrap in front of an old ore trestle at RMSM.

Gevo 511 leads a mix of six GEVO's and GP38-2's past four gons filled with scrap metal in the Iowa City Yard.

The CORP brakeman kicks off the air and uses the handbake to ease the chipcar to te rest of the train.

No. BB215 shoves a string of ore cars towards the dumper. SNIM mines iron ore in the interior of Mauritania and transports it to Nouadhibou (Cansado) for shipment. Notice the discarded Alstom loco... (more)

A colorful gon departs the SBS yard in Saginaw.

A Nucor steel crane unloads a car load of scrap metal for reprocessing.

How many covered hopper parts can you recognize? Several covered hoppers derailed on an interchange run to Walbridge more than a year ago and were finally cut up for scrap. Here, half a dozen go... (more)