The stern of the rail barge MANISTEE is almost completely into the slip where its rails will become attached to those of the NEW YORK CENTRAL so that the freight cars can be unloaded and switched ... (more)

On a chilly but clear evening in Aurora, IL, the sun is about set over the city, including Metra's fleet of bilevel commuter cars in its yard.

Here we see the apron on the dock at the left being lowered to mate with the rails aboard the barge MANISTEE which is loaded with freight cars which have just been ferried across the Straits of Ma... (more)

During the summer and fall of 1965, while the CHIEF WAWATAM, the regular rail ferry between Mackinaw City and St. Ignace, Michigan was in Manitowoc, Wisonsin for a boiler rebuild, the rail barge M... (more)

Darkness quickly begins to blanket the beautiful North Carolina sky on a humid summer evening, as the Southern Railway signal bridge in Lowell gets set to guide another manifest train through town... (more)

If you ever wondered what happened to some of Amtrak’s ExpressTrak reefer cars, the answer can be found in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. In this view from September 1, 2013, a group of the cars sit ... (more)

" Expansion " . The Naugatuck RR's Plan to expand their shop yard is well under way as volunteer crews work hard laying track (in background). At the same time, new spikes are waiting to b... (more)

A Plasser & Theurer tamper leads a parade of MOW equipment eastbound on the Kearney sub.

A UP welder that's been working on the crossing behind him is looking at the rails of the Mineola Sub as loaded well cars pass over them. He's watching for fractures in the rails he could fix whil... (more)

As C&NW and SP power idles in the yard, a downhill freight passes on one of the two main line tracks.

A car rolls through the computer-controlled retarders at East Hump while being sorted for eastern destinations at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 3, 2011. Retarders s... (more)

Looking like giant pieces from an Erector Set, a maze of steel holds up Union Pacific’s impressive Joso Bridge over the Snake River near Joso, Washington, on September 20, 2015.

Retiro Mitre Terminal, the biggest in Argentina, with a recently renewal of main hall and exterior facade.

At the end of a cold January day in 1983, the setting sun silhouettes Duplainville tower. The diamond at Duplainville, Wisconsin, featured Soo Line’s main line crossing a double-track Milwaukee Ro... (more)