A unique load on the Elgin Joliet & Eastern Porter Line in 1977. The placard reads "Do Not Hump".

With some Deere on the head end, Santa Maria Valley's Town Job heads toward Betteravia with its 70-tonner #80 doing the honors. The flat with tractors will be parked at the team track in Betteravi... (more)

After traffic clears, two GEVOs race westward toward Hawley with their merchandise freight. Notice the coal hopper hitching a ride on a flatcar.

The weekly Norfolk Southern high and wide special - symbol 058 - is seen on the approach to Enola Yard with NS SD60E leading a short train that includes the final British Railways - Colas Railway ... (more)

No Meet No Pass and for good reason... Four Boeing planes are on the point of a manifest climbing up the gooseneck, heading across the Hannibal Bridge into North Kansas City. The tight corn... (more)

Fully loaded onto CN flat 618088, T&NO 4-6-0 219 is prepped for a journey from Cochrane Yard where the steamer called home for over 30 years to her new home at the Northern Ontario Railroad Museum... (more)

A unique load spotted in the Denver Yard was this brand new Caterpillar scraper.

To negotiate the numerous curves found on today’s rails, innovative holding mechanisms were created and attached to these 89 foot flatcars which allow the large blades to pivot their way around ... (more)

Usually the only cars you see in Rook are tank cars, sand hoppers, Gondolas, keywells and a occasional boxcar but not to often a flatcar. Here is WLE 103 switching west Rook as the pass a flatcar ... (more)

The always versatile 89’4” flatcar can carry pretty much anything with only a few slight modifications. Whether it’s a Boeing ... (more)

As it sits on the fuel track, the BNSF 1543 gest passed by a tank car that has seen some better days and is oddly enough being carried by a former Southern Railway auto rack flatcar still wearing ... (more)

Wheels of varying size ride along a wheel flatcar as they are most likely headed for a scrap yard to be torn down and then recycled into another form of steel.

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)

Before there were centerbeam bulkhead flat cars, lumber was nervously shipped aboard standard 40-ft. flat cars. The loads were always vulnerable to shifting and being set out and delayed to be co... (more)

Two UP AC4400CWs slowly creep up past loaded windmill blade flat cars parked on North Yard Siding in Fort Collins that will be picked up by this train. After the pick up, the train will then go in... (more)