Unusual Visitor

If you spent enough time watching trains in the Allentown, Pennsylvania area, you would see freight cars from almost every railroad in the US and Canada. This is th... (more)

“Fresh Air”
The conductor of the “East End Local” (B829), with Chessie System/B&O GP38 2047 (CSX#), gets some fresh air and conducts a “roll by” inspection of R171 (Orange Bl... (more)

The "Louie" has been gone for decades but the paint scheme lives on, on this cement hopper in Rapid City, SD in May of 1990. Love the improvised track bumper.

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.

Minneapolis & St. Louis No. 70579 was built in June of 1937 as a two-bay covered hopper “serving the cement industry.” Even though it had its roof removed in later years when converted to a ba... (more)

After shooting westbound Rio Grande train 197 in cloudy light at Cotopaxi, Colorado, we chased it to the vicinity of Salida,... (more)

Immediately after its formation, Conrail transferred all six-axle Alco Centuries to Ohio for use in iron ore drag freight service. Of course a lot of that ore was destined for the steel mills in t... (more)

I spy something Corvette... To ride Auto Train, you have to bring a vehicle with you and save ~900 miles of driving on I-95. Autos are loaded for the daily departure, and a yard job will assemble ... (more)

Getting up close and personal with a hump retarder in action is not for the faint of heart. Especially on Milwaukee Road in 1972. Here we have a boxcar getting clamped as it progresses down the hu... (more)

“Long Gone”
Long gone are the CPLs, cabin cars, front runners, and the friendly wave. With RF&P GP40-2 146 plus three on the head end, Chessie System/C&O extended vision caboose (90)... (more)

Still wearing it's C&NW heritage, this caboose sits in Butler Yard in Butler, WI with a short cut of cars.

Chessie 903639 (ex-C&O 3639) brings up the rear of a freight in Blue Island, IL in October of 1986.

Remember when............ Amtrak carried more than just passengers? The westbound Lake Shore Limited blasts thru LaPorte, IN in November of 2002 with a fair amount of non-passenger revenue (includ... (more)

Mopac caboose 10358 brings up the rear of a CNW coal train in Oak Creek, WI in January of 1987.

Roller rink? These passenger cars were purchased for a rail themed roller rink in Platteville, WI. The cars were a long way from any type of rail as there was no service to Platteville in decades ... (more)