Still adorned with Holiday decorations, this N21 caboose was built by Fruit Growers Express in Alexandria, Virginia in the 1970s. Purchased new by Conrail, it is one of two Heritage cabooses in t... (more)

Just before Christmas 2016, OTVR ran a special "Santa Train" over its route. Behind the scenes, Santa rode in a warm pickup to the outskirts of each town and then would hop on to ride t... (more)

The Soo Line freight car shop in North Fond du Lac, WI is a busy place in May of 1985. It was fairly easy to get permission to wander thru the shop in Soo Line (and WC)days.

MP, Missouri Pacific caboose 13067, gives a friendly wave as he passes GE70 tonner on the interchange with P&NW, Prescott and Northwestern 24 at Prescott, Arkansas. July 27, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff ... (more)

A Crummy Shot. It was an ordinary sight 17 years ago today, June 26, 2007, when Norfolk Southern H37 found an opening in between SEPTA regional trains to return to Chrysler Yard in Newark, ... (more)

Here's another forgotten slide of half a dozen Southern cabooses. The railroad was already Norfolk Southern but there's no evidence of the merger here. The number X420 goes along with Sweetwater 4... (more)

Amtrak train 5, the westbound San Francisco Zephyr, has just arrived at Oakland’s 16th Street Station, completing its journey from Chicago. Amtrak dome-lounge 9372 was originally Souther... (more)

70 Floating hoppers and tumbleweeds

While traveling down highway 70/84 between Texico and Lubbock, Texas, I hoped to see some BNSF trains along the route. Never did I expec... (more)

A Conrail GP30 and N5C cabin car occupy the Ford Lead in Teterboro, NJ. Both trace their heritage to the Pennsylvania Railroad via Penn Central. The Ford Lead is former Erie/Erie Lackawanna indu... (more)

A fresh coat of Heritage III paint makes BN Caboose 2408 shine in the sun as it sits in a yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

A Santa Fe caboose punctuates a string of empty CWR cars leaving Palmer Lake, Colorado. The rock formation in the upper left is Palmer Lake’s Elephant Rock.

Found in BNSF High Priority Merchandise train H-BARPAS7-18, passing through Kansas City on a long detour as it heads from Barstow CA to Pasco WA, is Trinity Industries Leasing Co. 6351 cubic foot ... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific manifest freight climbing Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, has TTX flat No. 97920 carrying a pair of two-track John Deere tractors in the consist. On the left is a... (more)

Milwaukee Road GP20 at Ash crossing with a transfer job

Indiana Harbor Belt caboose #31 is performing its shoving duties into Blue Island Yard for the 515 Job this afternoon. During better years, the stripes on this veteran caboose were a much nicer sh... (more)