Right behind the caboose of a Milwaukee Road westbound arriving at Avery comes a railroad speeder. The railroad had speeders follow its freights as a way to put out fires started by sparks from th... (more)

A set of new C30ACi locomotives from GE transportation sit over night on the interchange track awaiting shipment to Angola, South Africa.

Locomotives:
AR 1850 C30ACi
AR 1845 C30ACi

A weed sprayer train enters Shoofly Tunnel near Fort Hill, PA. Unfortunately, the spray operator on the right was so intent on the work, he didn't get the sprayers turned off before they entered t... (more)

A Critter Keeps Earning

Union Tank Car's Altoona facility keeps an anachronistic piece of power around. While most repair facilities opt solely for a trackmobile these days, UTLX kee... (more)

Dos Sand Hoppers - [Autumnal Equinox +1] - A pair sand hoppers owned by the San Diego Dirt Company lay in storage on the Desert Line at Titus Siding near Jacumba.

In what can only be described as both a rare and odd move for the crew of Y150, they were tasked with spotting a transformer before serving their regular customers in downtown Columbia. The trans... (more)

Baker Hopper - A pair of flat cars and two hoppers lay in storage on the Desert Line at Titus Siding near Jacumba.

Tanks for the memories! A line-up of 6 Union Tank Car Company (UTLX), narrow frame tanks sit idle in front of the old Gramps Oil Loading Dock in the Chama Yard in early October of 2016. ... (more)

Conrail inherited about forty mechanical reefers from the Erie-Lackawanna, numbered in the EL 5000 series. Some, but not all, were repainted in what has to be the most striking and unusual freight... (more)

A unique load of steel on flatcars gets sorted in the UP's North Yard.

Almost all tracks in front of the Bafq passenger station are filled with unit trains. A majority of them trasnport ore, and of course there is an oil train, ubiquitous in Iran.

The Orange Juice Train has been a staple of east coast railroading since 1971, when Tropicana instituted a once-a-week unit train between its processing facility in Bradenton, Florida, and its nor... (more)

A covered hopper coasts down the hump of Argentine Yard and into its 62-track bowl yard, as the next cars wait up the hill. Argentine Yard handles thousands of cars a day over this hump, as the la... (more)