On the caboose track near the yard office on a very cold and overcast winter day thirty nine years ago.
A classy and colorful caboose is at the rear of a manifest freight as it rolls west through Griffith almost thirty nine years ago, just east of the famous Broad street tower. Gotta love those spru... (more)
Helping Hands Usually working as competitors in the Southeast for a customer’s business, the two Class I railroads east of the Mississippi River will instead work together this time ... (more)
One for the modelers: PRR kept this fire equipment handy, just in case. Was there a concealed water cannon behind the walls of the tender frame at the head end? It was stored at the St. Clair Av... (more)
Built by the Porter company for the Homsetake Mining Company to operate on their gold mine in Lead, South Dakota.
Although not hauling freight, this veteran box car still helps the Great Western Railway with advertising along Interstate 25 in Colorado.
A Massachusetts Call Volunteer Firefighter Association (MCVX) boxcar sits in the West Springfield Yard. This boxcar is one of a variety of cars that the MCVX has for training firefighters and law ... (more)
The Aiken Railway's new caboose awaits a paint job in the GRLW yard in Belton, SC.
Today the 50th Anniversary of Pier 6 Hopper arrives in Reading Yard today on NS H68
Coal is alive and well in southern Indiana
A Thrall 100-ton gondola, equipped with steel covers to protect the shipment of coil steel, awaits a pickup at the UP-D&RGW interchange track in Provo Yard. It was built new by Thrall for the D&RG... (more)
A Southern box car with a newly repaired door sits outside the shops near the Altoona station, seen in the distance.
This type is not legal to operate on the road so if you have an old jeep laying around you might want to try this. It worked pretty well.
This privately owned business car is lettered Formerly Penn Central 7.
