The paint on this MoW gondola which was applied in March of 1982 is doing a great job of keeping the Chessie System name and logo alive for this piece of equipment built by the Raceland car shops ... (more)

A Knife River gondola sits alone on the house track at Bertram after it showed as overweight on the scale track just west of town.

Two gondolas are being converted into Temporary Platform cars at the Bear shops.

Temporary Platform Gondolas were recently converted from MOW gons by the Bear shops and deployed to support a track work project on the NEC. They allow high level boarding from the center track wh... (more)

Temporary Platform Gondolas were recently converted from MOW gons by the Bear shops and deployed to support a track work project on the NEC. They allow high level boarding from the center track wh... (more)

Temporary Platform Gondolas were recently converted from MOW gons by the Bear shops and deployed to support a track work project on the NEC. They allow high level boarding from the center track wh... (more)

Holding onto what little grab irons there are on a Difco dump gondola, the conductor of A746 keeps a 3 point stance as he rides the shove maneuver to place these gons or riprap into the Opelika si... (more)

A battered logo still shows its CB&Q heritage on an old gondola at Burlington Northern’s Clyde Yard in Cicero, Illinois, in November 1983.

With their 3 loads of riprap in hand, the conductor of A746 covers his eyes as he looks up at the signal protecting the level crossing with NS and checks to see if he has a light across the diamon... (more)

When the Weyerhaeuser Woods Line and the east end of the Oregon, California & Eastern were scrapped, the salvaged materials were sorted at Sycan. Dismantler A&K Railroad Materials used the old log... (more)

Canadian Pacific's Delaware & Hudson painted this MOW gondola pink for breast cancer awareness. The gondola is seen at CP's Kenwood Yard loaded with wheels.

An old Mo-Pac Buzzsaw clings for dear life to the side of an MP 641000 series gondola at KCT Mill Street Yard.

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The abandoned loading platform only emphasizes just how bent up this gondola is. Photographed on Jones Island in Milwaukee in May of 1983.

A Conrail MoW gondola sits on the remains of the old Lehigh & Hudson River main. The L&HR railroad was a bridge line running northeast-southwest across northwestern New Jersey. This was the L&HR m... (more)

Taconite pellets are not the only thing that steam in the winter as these gondolas full of hot metal shavings show in March of 2014. The Gons are in a scrapyard in Racine, one of the few industrie... (more)