On a beautiful morning, a summer run of the Rio Grande Ski Train is westbound at Clay, Colorado, on July 15, 2000. Sure would be nice to be sitting on the rear platform of business car “Kansasâ€... (more)

In a high country snowstorm, the Rio Grande Ski Train departs Winter Park, Colorado, after unloading a large group of happy skiers on January 13, 2001. Former Rio Grande business car “Wilson McC... (more)

New York, Susquehanna & Western business car 510 was in its fourth life hosting railroad dignitaries when seen here in Binghamton, New York. The car was built in 1921 for the Rock Island, and did ... (more)

After unloading guests at Siskiyou siding for a bus trip back to Ashland, the "Sunset" enters Siskiyou Line Tunnel 13. An SP official next to me dryly observed, "I sure hope the D'A... (more)

Running on its last trip prior to being renamed the "Redwood Empire," ATSF 33 looks sharp on the rear of the northbound Coast Starlight as it brings up the markers just north of Santa Ma... (more)

Amtrak 14 meets a BNSF freight train at Wocus in September 2002. Once the Southern Pacific's presidential ride, in the Union Pacific fleet "Sunset" is just another business car.

A Roger Puta Photograph

View from the rear platform of the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train as we roll westbound through the ex-Northern Pacific 1885 brick-lined tunnel under Westminster Junction.

Rio Grande business car “Kansas” is on the rear of the Ski Train at Union Station at Denver, Colorado, on February 23, 1986.

"Fred's-eye view" of the railroad

Bringing up the rear on the way to Streamliners at Spencer

A summer run of the Rio Grande Ski Train is westbound at Clay, Colorado, on July 15, 2000, with business car “Kansas” carrying the markers.

The Rio Grande Ski Train has just exited the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel at Winter Park, Colorado, on February 16, 2002. With business car “Kansas” just outside the portal, the train is n... (more)

Narrow Gauge business car. The CN business car 'Terra Nova' was used on Newfoundland's narrow gauge (3'6'') network until it was donated to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 1970,... (more)

Uploaded just for RP contributor Joe Hinson, The Clinchfield 100 was the railroad's special monster weight business car built by the railroad, and ironically, the number according to estimates was... (more)