Helium hauler
At the Amarillo Railroad Museum, a Bureau of Mines MHAX car used to haul helium is on display. They had a capacity of 100 tons, or about 280,000 cubic feet, and carried he... (more)

It is Armed Forces Day 1970 and the Army has steamed up a couple of the Transportation Corps 2-8-0 locomotives to run on the post trackage. The 607 doubleheaded with 612 later in the day but my ph... (more)

Two Rock & Rail locomotives are at Canon City, Colorado, on June 3, 2011. The two engines have finished taken cars to Parkdale and are now eastbound going through the siding past a Canon City & Ro... (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)

Two trains going in opposite directions on single track causes a little bit of a problem but luckily today it was a solution. A inbound FWWR train pulls up to help the stalled 2011 back into the y... (more)

Look Mom...no coupler!
This Friday the 13th finds an unlucky CP auto rack as it has been tagged "bad order" and set out in West Point due to a lack of coupler. The car must now wait ... (more)

A poet from the coalfields deep within West Virginia has chalked his prose upon a Conrail coal hopper. One must wonder how many tons of black diamonds have exited the state via the thirty or forty... (more)

Time to Show Off! - Every spring the ARR hosts a lavish open house in both Anchorage and Fairbanks to show off the railroad. This year Anchorage's featured equipment displays both freight ... (more)

this is what a unit looks like that has gone through an apartment building. the previous night a company was MOVING A *corrected* building across the Santa Fe Pasadena Sub in Highland Park CA with... (more)

On time as usual, the Rock & Rail makes an early morning delivery into the old Rio Grande yard with loads to drop off for interchange with the BNSF. They will soon depart with empty covered hoppe... (more)

All four of the so-called SD-20-2's caught at the hump tower in the then-new Queensgate Yard.

Seaboard Coast Line GP40-2 #1654 leads southbound train #385 meeting train #308 in the siding. The area of the woodyard in the foreground is the former site of the depot at Cragford, AL. Seaboard... (more)