Illinois Railway Museum personnel are in the process of unloading Union Electric Company #4 from a flatcar. The Porter 0-4-0 was built in 1946. Tom Golden photo.

On May 8th, 2020 Mass Coastal Railroad ran an extra train to Hyannis. The train included four hopper cars that dumped ballast at points along the way. More interesting was a depressed flatcar behi... (more)

The D&H inspired SNEX 5012 lets out a little signature Alco smoke as it starts to pull off the former Greenwich & Johnsonville connection (south leg of the wye) onto the former D&H Washington Coun... (more)

Conrail 5029 hauls a single tank on a DODX flatcar.

Heavy loads
A westbound BNSF wind turbine train is curving along the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon west of Lombard, Montana, on September 9, 2011. A pair of turbine generators i... (more)

Ballasting, the old fashioned way. With the track in place, and securely spiked, the task of applying ballast begins. Here, the WW&F crew is seen ballasting the southern approach to the ne... (more)

The Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus train rolls west through Perkiomen Junction, Pennsylvania. The rails in the foreground are the former Reading Perkiomen Branch, which ran from here to ... (more)

MRL 402 and 403 are parked at Logan< MT in between local duties. An end loader occupies the deck of an MRL flat car, making an interesting load for those with modeling interests.

Colorado’s San Luis Valley is a huge high-altitude (average 7,664 feet above sea level) valley that is approximately 122 miles long and 74 miles wide with some of it used for grazing and growing... (more)

A Komatsu front-end loader is loaded on Montana Rail Link flatcar No. 100203 in the yard at Logan, Montana, on October 17, 2018. In the background, MRL GP35 Nos. 403 and 402 wait to go to work on ... (more)

"Long Island Hacks for Scrap" One of Long Island Rail Road's surviving hacks sits on a flatcar along with another in Holban Yard shortly after being detrucked and prepped for transport to ... (more)

As an autorack train shoved into IHB's Blue Island Yard, it didn't take long for me to notice it was no ordinary autorack. Included in the train consist was CRGX 1528, a former ATSF Alco S4. Built... (more)

An Arcelor Mittal SW1500 pulls a cut of flat cars loaded with steel slabs as it moves them around the Indiana Harbor plant in East Chicago.

Locomotives:
MTSX 111 SW1500

Synthetic gypsum train for USG Washingtonville Plant is parked by the runaround as the crew ran out of time earlier in the morning just short of their destination. KGLX 109089 hopper was damaged i... (more)

Scrapping the WW&F. It's 1936 and the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway has been out of business for 3 long years. Salvage crews are finally in the process of lifting the rails th... (more)