The Pennsylvania Railroad had 550 Class R50b express refrigerator cars. Built with four-wheel passenger trucks, they were designed for speed, largely to transport milk to urban markets. This examp... (more)
BNSF's eastbound Provo, Utah trackage rights manifest is about to duck into a cloud covered scene just west of Leyden near Arvada at a location call Chemical.
Color photograph from my collection -captured here in a pan, a 1937 steel box car built for the Illinois Central Railroad - the Main Line of Mid-Ameri... (more)
Here's an old photo from way back in 2014 featuring an old 1941 built Wabash box car within a consist moving eastbound on the Illinois Central line. This once ... (more)