An unusual sight in several ways: NS train 378 crosses the Chattahoochee River into Columbus, Georgia, with a block of 30 new Florida East Coast rock hoppers (built July 2022), loaded with coal of... (more)

Freshly stored hopper cars in the yard @ Copperhill Tn

This crew worked most of the morning to re-rail two hoppers that jumped the track at the wye on the east side of Johnstown. The cars were moving slowly so no damage, although that lean was enough... (more)

The sound of couplers colliding together, whistle blasts, air compressors and steam locomotive exhaust chuffs, all but an auditory echo from some 50 years past. Here, a long abandoned hopper and ... (more)

Narrow gauge hopper cars as far as the eye can see... Part of what was once a fleet of roughly 275 hopper cars, close to 100 sit preserving a moment of time that once was - a living time capsule o... (more)

Awaiting a call to service that never came... Part of a fleet of narrow gauge hopper cars that once numbered close to 275 sit pending their fate at EBT's Mount Union yard.

A few hoppers were s... (more)

Dozens of narrow gauge hopper cars sit and rust after being seemingly abandoned for nearly half a century. Note the trees growing through the cars! The Earth reclaims. I've always wanted to get... (more)

Loaded Canadian grain hoppers roll along the steel ribbons.