If you're going to crash, might as well make it spectacular. Southern Railway's new aluminum "silver side" coal hoppers detailed atop a trestle near Frisco, Tenn. and the Big Hook was uprighting ... (more)

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Couplers from scrapped railcars head into the BNSF yard where they’ll most likely be sent to a foundry that manufactures this railway component so their metal compositions ... (more)

Former Carolina Southern F7 9163 stored in the yard at Alamosa.

Two China Rail workers unload blocks of frozen fish from conventional boxcars. With daytime highs in the mid-teens---no refrigeration needed!

We couldn't imagine something this quaint, still in use.

a loaded gondola of new ties for the Caramat Sub was set off by a 313 earlier in the week. The auto carrier next to it didn't want to let go!

All that remains of Union Pacific SD-24B sits in a Santa Fe gondola along with other locomotive parts. Damaged Santa Fe 5609 and an Amtrak locomotive sit on the track next to the Santa Fe locomot... (more)

Shortly after LTV announced it was closing its mine and pellet plant in northern Minnesota an employee spray painted "For Sale" on one of the ore cars. Unfortunately a sale would never come and 14... (more)

The famous P-811 TLM (track laying machine) in full operation laying the first concrete ties prior to the overhead wire installation. The TLM was part of a long string of machines doing everything... (more)

Long before buffer cars were as common as they are today, a pair of Rio Grande GP9s move a tank car of nitric acid (bracketed by mill gondolas) for Trojan Explosives in Spanish Fork. D&RGW train #... (more)

YDHR's work train heads out of their yard to drop ties along the line where needed, for replacement.

BNSF coal hoppers slowly roll past an abandoned house as they are loaded at the Black Thunder West load out near Reno Junction.

Coal hoppers fly through the snow across the Powder River Basin near Wright, Wyoming.

Ever seen a uniformed trainman hand cleaning dome car windows in freezing, cold weather? This is service above and beyond, desiring to give passengers the best possible view as No. 1 westbound C... (more)

A Rock Island local led by a C415 and a wooden transfer caboose works its way through the interlockings at 95th Street on the city's South Side. Tom Golden photo.