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)

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)

An East Erie Commercial switcher shoves a cut of flat cars loaded with trucks for Vale Carajas locomotives onto an interchange track with Norfolk Southern.

Locomotives:
EEC 22 SL-110

"Pullman Standard P72 on a Flatcar" LIRR Pullman Standard P72 Coach 2933 sits loaded onto FICX Flatcars on the "River Track" at Wheelspur Facility waiting to be transported to Frontier Met... (more)

A unique load of steel on flatcars gets sorted in the UP's North Yard.

PRR K-4s No. 1361 (2017)

PRR K4 1361's boiler and firebox sit on an old Norfolk Southern flat car inside the 7 stall "Harry & Rebecca Bennett Memorial Roundhouse" at the Rail... (more)

Flats of Caterpillar heavy equipment bookend a flat of smaller Case equipment in the center of the "high and wide" movement between Ardara and Larimer.

Over 8,000 tones of worn Abrams tanks are seen being slugged upgrade into Woodford on a warm afternoon on Tehachapi. Making a somewhat rare appearance on a DODX train, two mid-train DPU's can be s... (more)

Unloading of KNIE circus trailers (personnel carrier) from SBB flat cars of Kps type in Winterthur freight yard. The KNIE circus is moving from town to town over night using two chartered trains o... (more)

What I’m guessing is a three-phase circuit breaker is being delivered to a utility customer on an Illinois Central Gulf flat in this November, 1988 view at Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Lions and Tigers (No Bears)! Oh My!

In the 1990’s, I photographed the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey’s circus trains quite a few times. For me, along with seeing the lon... (more)

Tanks a lot! 6 axle flatcars are rare, even more so when there are tanks aboard. DODX 40284 is part of a westbound CNW freight as is rumbles thru Blairstown, IA in May of 1991.

SP-10 is suspended in the air and the flatcar is pulled out from under it as Jim Mahon looks on

1980s piggyback, in a different form. Rather than hauling a pair of highway trailers or containers, this 89' Trailer Train flatcar is being utilized to haul a fleet of brand new Chevrolet C70 tru... (more)

A Gunderson built bulkhead flatcar sits on the West Point siding in the early morning hour looking like it's awaiting unloading of its heavy structural steel beams. I... (more)