Bitterly cold temps have broken this rail on the Union Pacific line at Clarksburg Illinois.
A freight car on a westbound CSX manifest freight hits the flange oiler in Becket, MA on the Boston Line. Canon EOS 20D, Canon 70-200mm f/4L
A section of panel track lies in a pile at the historic CSX Curtis Bay Yard in the highly industrialized South Baltimore.
Steel wheel on steel rail, close up at speed, hand held leaning out and hoping for the best.
A nicely polished surface has been created from the hands of a recent cutting blade on this cross section of an otherwise rusty piece of more)
Brunswick, MD 11/11/2012 - A Contrast of Eras: while a string of loaded coal hoppers sits in the Mill Yard with modern CSX emblems, a solid string of 1970's Difco side-dump ballast cars with a var... (more)
Compromise When rails of two different sizes need to be joined, a compromise must be achieved - thus the compromise joint. This unique joint bar allows rail of different web thickness,... (more)
While these mating worms have lasted longer than the parent railroad they represented, their deterioration is a good example of how tough life got on that railroad in the mid-70s.
A Union Pacific logo adorns the stack of a piece of MOW equipment that planes the top of a railroad tie for the tie plate to sit. Photo taken in Altoona, WI.
A Union Pacific MOW work hammers in an alignment pin to align the rail joint for the new bolt in Altoona, Wisconsin.
On November 19, 1994, Green Bay and Western boxcars see the end of the line at a scrapyard in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Brand new train steel wheel sets sitting at Greenbrier Rail Services Wheel Division in Kansas City.
Arcade, NY 7/20/2012 - Sometimes the simplest details of the railroad provide for an insiring image. With no trains to watch and a dreary rain falling over this classic shortline in western New Yo... (more)
An up-close look at the results of rail burn at sunset
Knuckles locked between a Great Northern Caboose and a New York Central RS3.
