A very rare visitor to Minnesota's Iron Range and today there were four of them. A quad set of Ferromex GE's charge east at Wilpen, MN with 120 cars for loading at United Taconite's Fairlane pla... (more)
This is EXX-3001 at sunrise, the first of three built by RRL Grindrod South Africa in Pretoria, for the Exxaro Mining Group, based in South Africa. They are to be used in the group's iron ore oper... (more)
Why are unit train coal hopper cars painted a color on one end? The color itself has no significance. The end with a color denotes that end of the car has a rotary coupler, to enable the car t... (more)
In case of a line-blockage derailment, there was nothing like a ready-made shoofly around it!! Such was the lucky case when the rear cars of a northbound ATSF freight derailed adjacent to a lim... (more)
A detail shot of a pair of solar panels mounted on two Herzog ballast cars. The panels supply the necessary power to open the doors to drop ballast remotely via GPS from the lead locomotives.