The beautiful private car Cyrus K. Holiday cools its heels on the rear of the detouring southbound Coast Starlight as it changes crews at the original Southern Pacific depot in Bakersfield prior t... (more)

GATX tank cars came in a seemingly unlimited variety of sizes and paint schemes, for many specialized loads. Here a car of SCM titanium dioxide rolls through Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, Boeing-Vertol produced the US Standard Light Rail Vehicle. A total of 275 articulated railcars were sold to Boston’s MBTA and San Francisco’s MUNI. The... (more)

Built Like a Mack Truck

That phrase was very much a part of the fabric of Allentown, Pennsylvania, home of the world headquarters of Mack Trucks. Although I grew up about twenty mi... (more)

MILW GP9 301 and caboose 991905 are parked at Sumner near the depot. this equipment worked the valley between Sumner and Black River Jct., south of Seattle on joint UP-MILW trackage. This included... (more)

Shoving a dimensional load. A crewmember rides the rear of flat car QTTX 130706 as a transformer gets shoved towards CP's Lasalle yard, with CP 2262 pushing as they pass through Lasalle Sta... (more)

WPSX coal gon No. 1626 has wreck repairs done at Union Pacific’s De Soto car shop in Missouri on September 28, 2011. The damaged portions of this side of the car have been removed, with mechanic... (more)

Brand new large railway crane "Kirow" KRC-1200 FR (France) Multi Tasker # 99 87 9319 507 for the french "Travaux Ferroviaires Français" during tests for homologation in Bülach. The Multi Tasker ... (more)

Train 1617 from St.Moritz to Tirano over the Bernina pass is entering Bernina Lagalb station for the crossing with train 1632. The "Allegra" railcar ABe 8/12 # 3511 is shoving the track plow Xk # ... (more)

232 528 will lead the military train from Immendingen to Rottweil.

Soo Line caboose #8 trails a Lake States train travelling along Division Street in Oshkosh, WI in April of 1987. Not a trace of the railroad remains here today.

A classic SP caboose brings up the back end of a local as it has just crossed the diamond at Joliet.

Seen in their final full year of operation, the "original" Auto Train Auto Carriers had seen better days. The 9114 was removed from the roster wearing Phase III. This particular car was... (more)

UP caboose's 25461 and 25815 trail a westbound freight along Hwy 30 near North Platte, NE in May of 1989.

Penn Central SW1500 no. 9224 is parked at Ashland Avenue with NYC caboose 21023. This trackage, or at least some of it belongs to the Chicago River and Indiana Railroad, one of several transfer ro... (more)