The last PCC streetcar rolled out of the St. Louis Car Company plant in 1951, so San Francisco Municipal Railway PCC 1165 was built sometime before that. By the time car 1165 was photographed on ... (more)

Southern Pacific boxcar No. 661112 could still be seen in California Northern’s Napa Junction yard on March 13, 2006, complete with a peeling and rusting Car-Pac Loader logo on its side.

Conrail Almost forty years ago on April 1st 1976 the Consolidated Railroad Corporation (Conrail) commenced operations and began returning reliable rail service back to the Northeast. Th... (more)

Burlington Northern #450 - [A Study of Moving Coal Cars] - This open hopper built in February of 1976 by the Pullman Standard Company rolls down the Cajon Pass loaded with Utah coal in rout... (more)

Chicago North Western - [A Study of Moving Coal Cars] - The Chicago North Western logo on the side of a UP coal train in route to West Colton passes by Hill 582 on BNSF trackage. This op... (more)

Missouri Pacific - [A Study of Moving Coal Cars] - The Missouri Pacific Lines logo on the side of a UP coal train in route to West Colton passes by Hill 582 on BNSF trackage. This open ... (more)

While the CNW's been gone for 20 years now, their "bar and ball" logo, lives on, in places such as on the side of this Andersons 1973-vintage hopper.

Dedicated on July 12, 1978, the Amtrak station in Rochester, NY was the first Amtrak designed station in the country. Numerous other examples cropped up around the system when Amtrak needed a new... (more)

EMD wide-nose locomotives such as SD70Ms on Union Pacific featuring winged logos are not exactly centered on the nose, but is is especially noticeable on newer SD70ACes, due to the size and locati... (more)

Known as “Rocky” by the Great Northern, this trademark mountain goat perched atop a rock would become the official trademark for that railroad in 1936. For much of its life Rocky would be enc... (more)

Baterred VIA logo. The VIA logo on the side of VIA 6309 has seen better days. It was donated by VIA Rail to Exporail about a decade ago but has not been refurbished and has been stored outs... (more)

The journey continues (in French and English). The anniversary of privatization logo applied to a handful of locomotives in 2010 is still in decent shape on 2107 as it toils away on ore trains in ... (more)

The builder's logo was cast into the truck of EMD DD35 No. 74B, pictured at Provo Yard on Jan. 23, 1977.

The 36" gauge Pacific Coast Railway operated out of San Luis Obispo, on California's central coast, south to Los Olivos. In 1928, the railroad acquired ten box cars from the Nevada-Californi... (more)

Here is an up close shot of the slowly fading D&H logo on the side of the 7303 that I took as the train passed at Momentive.