Cotton Belt 60' flat car 854668, carrying a pair of M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), was built by Greenville Steel Car in April 1969. The Cotton Belt's parent company, Southern Pacifi... (more)

Found on a siding loaded with what appears to be a high/wide load in Asea Brown Boveri depressed-center flat car ABWX 20002. This car was built National Steel Car in February 1981. (Huntsville, ... (more)

A pair of historic, former Fillmore & Western Railway (FWRY) heavyweight passenger cars began their cross-country trip from Southern California to their new home at the Everett Railroad in Duncanv... (more)

Just For Show. No actual flat cars were harmed during this demonstration at the night shoot at Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum in Willimantic, Connecticut on Saturday, October 2, 2021.

Passing through Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania, the 1992 edition of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit continues westward on its cross-state trip.

All Red at Valley Junction

The westbound signals at Valley Junction, Pennsylvania are all displaying a red indication while the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus Red Unit tr... (more)

An interesting maintenance of way flat car rests along Lincoln Street at Carter Yard in Kingsport, Tennessee. This flat has ramps on either end to allow the track tie crane in the middle to acces... (more)

FedEx Ground trailers speed eastbound on a BNSF intermodal train on Montana Rail link’s Second Subdivision at Elton, Montana, on the morning of June 24, 2020. The rugged Absaroka Range mountains... (more)

The Train That Struck Fear Into Los Angeles. Traversing the southern end of the ex-SP coast line, an eastbound military train, heavily laden with tanks, passes the Santa Susana Depot and Mu... (more)

The Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus train rolls west through Perkiomen Junction, Pennsylvania. The rails in the foreground are the former Reading Perkiomen Branch, which ran from here to ... (more)

It's not everyday you see an Amtrak Flat car in use, let alone one with triple axle trucks that is of US Army heritage.

Built Like a Mack Truck

That phrase was very much a part of the fabric of Allentown, Pennsylvania, home of the world headquarters of Mack Trucks. Although I grew up about twenty mi... (more)

Shoving a dimensional load. A crewmember rides the rear of flat car QTTX 130706 as a transformer gets shoved towards CP's Lasalle yard, with CP 2262 pushing as they pass through Lasalle Sta... (more)

A unique load of steel on flatcars gets sorted in the UP's North Yard.

It is quite a sight to see these huge airplanes 'flying' through an urban environment on a railcar. The green protective coating on his Boeing 737 800 (n/s 3742 which now flies for Delta Airlines... (more)