Two Lake Superior & Ishpeming “hill jobs” are working at the ore docks in Marquette, Michigan on August 7, 1986. I don’t believe that the yard tower was occupied by this time.

The wildflowers have taken over the Lake Superior & Ishpeming classification yard in Marquette, Michigan, and the main line doubles as the switching lead for the ore docks. Three of the road’s R... (more)

The Other Mopac

Based in Souderton, Pennsylvania, the Moyer Packing Company, at one point the ninth-largest beef processor in the United States, called itself Mopac. The other Mopa... (more)

Two months old and still looking showroom fresh, a Great Lakes Carbon covered hopper is the last car of a Conrail train passing through Dekalb Junction, New York. These cars hauled calcined petrol... (more)

General American built 100-ton airslide covered hoppers to place in its lease pool in grain service. The cars were adorned with the logos of customer products Wonder Bread and Hostess Cakes. Here ... (more)

Still largely displaying its original 1957 "Way of the Zephyrs" livery, a Colorado & Southern forty-foot box car pauses in the yard in Trinidad, Colorado.

A pair of patched forty-foot Conrail boxcars stand on a siding in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. These cars are wearing two of the Reading Company’s final paint schemes.

The Erie Lackawanna had a fleet of insulated box cars that were targeted for use at an on-line General Foods warehouse. Here one of these cars with a distinctive blue EL scheme rolls out of Enola,... (more)

A somewhat unusual Erie Lackawanna insulated box car rolls through Allentown, Pennsylvania. This class of car has an oversized off-center plug door.

With the skyline of Temple, Texas looming in the background, four Santa Fe GP20’s roll a manifest into the fuel racks outside of town.

A Susquehanna haulage train backs through the NYS&W yard in Binghamton, New York. The rear of the train can be seen crossed onto Conrail’s Southern Tier line.

New York, Susquehanna & Western GP18 1804 and C430 3006 idle next to the engine house in Binghamton, New York. The utility truck is wearing the logo of Susquehanna parent Delaware Otsego Corporati... (more)

One of the earliest Susquehanna haulage trains backs through Binghamton, New York to get onto the Southern Tier. Getting the NYS&W’s veteran power on a road freight was a major railfan attractio... (more)

When the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad acquired the former Lackawanna Syracuse and Utica branches, they also received rights to operate haulage trains between their two disconnected div... (more)

Making its final run to Denver, the Rio Grande Zephyr passes through Debeque Canyon, Colorado.