This is not the way to treat a carload of beer. A split switch just south of the Birmingham station caused quite a pileup over half a century ago..

A derailment that took place where the railroad crossed Royal Oak's Main St. After waiting several hours, a southbound passenger train managed to creep by on a seldom used siding..

BNSF Southwest Division placard under the eaves of division headquarters in Vaughn.

Not a good way to start the afternoon. A UP trim job derailed earlier that afternoon. Several cars are off the ground and the tracks are torn up. Several trains waiting to leave to leave the yard ... (more)

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Shown here is Combine 7365. It had been converted to serve both crew and passengers on Grand Trunk's Mixed Trains 41 and 42 running between Durand and Greenville, thus making a caboose unnecessar... (more)

The tail end of a ghostly CSX vehicle train headed north passes the classic CPLs at Glendale.

Some passenger cars of the COLE BROS. CIRCUS train.

A tank car sits next to the BN's siding at Skamania, with no track underneath its bogies.

The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Yard in South West Cedar Rapids.

The stern of the rail barge MANISTEE is almost completely into the slip where its rails will become attached to those of the NEW YORK CENTRAL so that the freight cars can be unloaded and switched ... (more)

On a chilly but clear evening in Aurora, IL, the sun is about set over the city, including Metra's fleet of bilevel commuter cars in its yard.

Here we see the apron on the dock at the left being lowered to mate with the rails aboard the barge MANISTEE which is loaded with freight cars which have just been ferried across the Straits of Ma... (more)

During the summer and fall of 1965, while the CHIEF WAWATAM, the regular rail ferry between Mackinaw City and St. Ignace, Michigan was in Manitowoc, Wisonsin for a boiler rebuild, the rail barge M... (more)

Darkness quickly begins to blanket the beautiful North Carolina sky on a humid summer evening, as the Southern Railway signal bridge in Lowell gets set to guide another manifest train through town... (more)