3 Trailer Train flatcars bring an unusual load thru Duplainville, WI in March of 1987. The load is from Phoenix Steel and almost looks like the framework for some type of movable bridge.

The abandoned loading platform only emphasizes just how bent up this gondola is. Photographed on Jones Island in Milwaukee in May of 1983.

ATSF 999714 and the GN 2568 lay over in Topeka, KS outside of the Santa Fe station on 11/14/2016. Given the location, the old Unclaimed Freight building in the background, depot and more, this pa... (more)

CNW caboose #11223 brings up the rear of an ore train at Empire Junction in May of 1986. The train is heading to the Empire Mine for loading. Unfortunately, the CNW is gone, the caboose is no long... (more)

A plethora of historic equipment sits at the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati in Latonia, Kentucky. Among the collection is PRR Observation, the Metropolitan View (bottom right) and B&O "... (more)

Oakdale Tennessee was a division point of the second and third districts of the Southern now NS CNO&TP. Here we find the conductor of a northbound ballast train about to board his caboose.

Wabush Lake Railway Automobile Carrier delivering cars at the QNS&L's Schefferville yard in Northern Quebec December 29, 1969.

Heavy Stuff

With the sprawling General Electric complex in Schenectady as a major on-line shipper, the Delaware & Hudson had to maintain a fleet of special-use flat cars. That flee... (more)

Not your Father's Scale Test Car
Wearing the eye catching orange paint typically found in MoW cars, this former Pullman Standard 4 bay covered hopper has been reclassified to another ... (more)

Taconite pellets are not the only thing that steam in the winter as these gondolas full of hot metal shavings show in March of 2014. The Gons are in a scrapyard in Racine, one of the few industrie... (more)

A cut of loaded grain cars being pulled by Canadian Pacific derailed on a ladder track at BNSF's Rices Point yard, spilling its golden NoDak cargo.

Of blue and steel... coal hopper mtys are backed up under the loading silo and will be ready for loading in the moring at Middlesboro Minings loadout. For decades the operation was known as Appolo... (more)

Dry conditions combined with a stiff breeze fanned sparks from a rail grinder into a moderate grass fire. Crews on the grinder and those following on a special Northshore Mining fire train doused ... (more)

The South Branch Valley started operations with at least one former Western Maryland caboose. Painted in SBVR’s version of WM’s speed lettering scheme, caboose 1892 is seen crossing the south ... (more)

Southern Railroad of New Jersey GP9 No. 100 rests at the Farmers Exchange in Woodstown, the last major shipper on the line (major, in this case, meaning a handful of cars per year). In a few days ... (more)