Although not hauling freight, this veteran box car still helps the Great Western Railway with advertising along Interstate 25 in Colorado.

A Massachusetts Call Volunteer Firefighter Association (MCVX) boxcar sits in the West Springfield Yard. This boxcar is one of a variety of cars that the MCVX has for training firefighters and law ... (more)

The Aiken Railway's new caboose awaits a paint job in the GRLW yard in Belton, SC.

Today the 50th Anniversary of Pier 6 Hopper arrives in Reading Yard today on NS H68

Coal is alive and well in southern Indiana

A Thrall 100-ton gondola, equipped with steel covers to protect the shipment of coil steel, awaits a pickup at the UP-D&RGW interchange track in Provo Yard. It was built new by Thrall for the D&RG... (more)

A Southern box car with a newly repaired door sits outside the shops near the Altoona station, seen in the distance.

This type is not legal to operate on the road so if you have an old jeep laying around you might want to try this. It worked pretty well.

This privately owned business car is lettered Formerly Penn Central 7.

Clean and not tagged with graffiti, around 1982 on the westward siding adjacent the N&W yard.

A pair of ex Army cars sat under the Broadway overpass for years on sections of isolated track that I believe were used for storage. These cars wore a unique all Phase 3 blue body with silver roo... (more)

A UP Mobile Laboratory car trails on the back end of Amtrak 5 and is bound for Roseville

Nice and clean, and in mainline service on this fine spring day.

A new Cryo-Trans mechanical refrigerator car takes a break at UP North Yard in Salt Lake City. The CRYX 5825 was manufactured by Greenbrier of Lake Oswego, Oregon in Feb. 2013. The car is 72 feet ... (more)