Nine years after the FRA-mandated deadline for cars built before 1966 to have their roofwalks removed, there were still non-compliant cars in service. Here a Chesapeake & Ohio 40-foot boxcar, stil... (more)

Rare Rio Grande boxcar
On September 26, 2020, Denver & Rio Grande Western boxcar No. AX-60080 sits in the yard at Phippsburg, Colorado, located on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Cra... (more)

Algoma Central's diesel rail crane and support car found its way to North Fond Du Lac after Wisconsin Central's acquisition of the railroad. Quite an impressive machine, and a support gondola nice... (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)

The Ogdensburg and Norwood's only engine switches the Penn Central interchange at Norwood, NY. Until going out of business in 1963 the Rutland Railway terminated at Ogdensburg, NY on the St. Lawre... (more)

A Kasgro Rail Corporation caboose brings up the rear of CSX W995, a high & wide special move of a GE Turbine as it passes through Erie, Pennsylvania on the morning of August 19th. The train is pa... (more)

A very old standard gauge freight car sits on the transporter (narrow gauge wagon to carry standard gauge cars).

By the late 1970’s, 50-ton hoppers were not uncommon, but their ranks were quickly dwindling. Here a Reading survivor visits Allentown Yard in its final years.

GTW 79058 is a steel extended vision caboose, a former DT&I caboose that has been re-lettered and renumbered to conform to the Grand Trunk. From my collection, Photo by Mike Bledsoe.

Not long ago, Not far away. This exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Manhattan, New York is part of an exhibition on Auschwitz. This car is one of 120,... (more)

Amtrak's Electric Traction Department works to repair catenary damage on the Hell Gate Line caused by an earlier derailment at CSX's Oak Point Yard in the Bronx borough of NYC. The derail... (more)

Honorably retired. Clinchfield dolled up some their old cabs and sold them at auction. To me that shows something so lacking in the world today, a touch of class. What a crummy Christmas gift t... (more)

In 1964, the Nickel Plate Road was absorbed into the Norfolk & Western empire. Fourteen years later, many of its cars were still roaming the nation’s rail system. Here a classic offset-side two ... (more)

New Jersey’s fifteen-mile-long Rahway Valley was another short line that took advantage of the ICC incentive per diem boxcar rates of the late 1970’s. By the mid-1980’s, the rules were again... (more)

With more letters in its name than miles in its route, the Lake Erie Franklin and Clarion Railroad joined the per-diem boxcar craze of the late 1970’s. Here one of those cars passes through Alle... (more)