One of the major railcar leasers in North America is GATX (General American Transportation Corporation). A set of six brand new DOT111A100W7 GATX tank cars with head shields, roll south on Brenco... (more)

It has been a rough week for NS in the city of Opelika. After a 22 car derailment on the previou... (more)

Brand spankin new PROX 17394 sits in track OG32 at Oakville Yard awaiting placement at the Procor facility in Oakville to be painted, these updated tank cars include riot shields, new rung ladders... (more)

From this vantage point it's easy to see how much elevation change this tank train has undergone as it moves off the original Santa Fe track and onto the ex-Rio Grande right of way. What isn't se... (more)

A very full Tilford Yard is beginning to embrace the warm rising sun this morning as the former L&N classification yard starts another day of sorting cars for CSX.

Couplers are a wonderful invention! Here are a pair of Type E double shelf couplers on tank cars rolling along at about 40 miles per hour on BNSF Railway's Barstow to San Diego train, nicknamed t... (more)

A southbound unit tank train comes to a stop a few miles before Palmer Lake due to an opposing northbound lined through the single track section there. Stopping here at the transition area betwee... (more)

An endless line of crude oil tankers looking nearly as seamless as the rails they are moving atop, roll on into the horizon as they make their way back to an oil loading terminal out west.

A study of a 60+ year old Pure Oil tank car truck journal box showing every bit of it's age.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe tank car No. 99911 is a training car used within BNSF’s Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response (TRANSCAER) program across the railroad’s system.... (more)

In the early morning hours of Dec. 5th, a Conrail crew was backing a cut of cars into the Kinder Morgan siding in Carteret when two cars carrying hazardous chemicals derailed. One car partially de... (more)

One of the tank cars used to bring in the fuel the Santa-Fe oil-burners needed on a coal-burning railroad is spotted by the roundhouse. Oil burners were a western railroad fuel not akin to PRR op... (more)

One of several tank cars used for training by the Massachusetts Call Volunteer Firefighter's Association sits in the West Springfield Yard.

The Massachusetts Call Volunteer Firefighers Association rosters a couple of different tank cars used in their training program.

The nearly uniform rear section of a 60 car unit tank train carrying Texas Tea rolls smoothly atop continuous welded strands of 136 p... (more)