Perfect Christmas Tree is Home Now. After a search through the woods of Illiana we had found a nice tree growing along the V V Main. The conductor, with chainsaw in hand, lopped this beauty... (more)

The rock that makes up the bulk of the new part of the seawall is dumped down into the excavated area. This is one heavy load. There will be several more loads of rock and fill to be dumped before... (more)

An NP 50 ft. plug door box car still shows off its heritage in Warden, WA where it is now used as a storage shed adjacent to the Columbia Basin Railway.

The local has just switched out cars at Munster lumber and is heading back north on the old Monon line. It was unusual to see a MOPAC caboose on this train.

I usually don't look at all the cars in coal trains as they roll past, but this one caught my eye. This is a Union Electric (UCEX) car on an empty coal train near O'Fallon, Missouri.

The Union Pacific Railroad had all kinds of neat old equipment stored behind the UP depot in Salt Lake City. I wish I had photographed more of it, but glad I captured a few. Check out this old Gen... (more)

This car is noted as being the first all aluminum open top hopper built in the United States by Alcoa in 1931. It was the prototype car and is lettered Monon to reflect the heritage of the rail li... (more)

Two things Indiana is known for - corn and the Monon. Monon had a number of dual-purpose boxcars (boppers) designed with covered hopper-like loading hatches on the top for agricultural products. C... (more)

Still resting on her side after being trucked from Wellsboro, PA as such, this Pennsy boxcar is destined to serve as a theater and storage space at the Railroad Museum of Long Island's Greenport l... (more)

The date is just a guess, but this was back at the East Syracuse depot, in the days when Roadrailers were a common sight on the rear of most Amtrak long distance trains.

Former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio heavyweight dining car "Azalea" awaits an uncertain fate at a closed restaurant in Buttzville, NJ since 2006.

The conductor is a nano-second away from receiving orders, as his train heads west on the Chicago Line in 1977.

Clean and not tagged with graffiti, at the west end of Indiana Harbor Belt's Gibson yard.

The 1:1 Scale Weathering Project in Progress at Jacumba - [2015 Summer Solstice +7 Series] -A Tren Turistico Del Noroeste (Tourist Train of the Northwest) Caboose at Jacumba "weathers" d... (more)