Speed Lettering After being purchased by the Rio Grande in 1988, the newly combined Rio Grande and Southern Pacific railroads retained the name of Southern Pacific but revamped the log... (more)
Northern Empire After numerous requests and denials for merger and nearly 75 years after James J. Hill first suggested the idea, on March 2nd 1970 the Burlington Northern was born. Or... (more)
Southern Serves the South More than just a slogan; this was how the Southern Railway operated. From modifying cars to meet customer needs, or becoming the first railroad to introduce ... (more)
Service by Design Started in 1989, BN America had since become a premiere intermodal service provider registering movements of over 200,000 containers a year at one point. Due to such... (more)
Grande Gold The Rebel of the Rockies first started applying this 6 foot tall version of its speed lettered logo on locomotives starting in 1968 with their last order of SD45s. From t... (more)
Message in a Hopper Someone has taken the time to help spread the message about the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry by tagging this covered hopper.
Golden West Service Started back in the 1990s, this sale / lease back program consisting of cars from Southern Pacificmore)
The Family Lines System Only operating from 1972 to 1982, this conglomerate of Southeast Railroads were able to coordinate their operations, facilities, motive power and rolling stock... (more)
Railgon Incorporated on May 24, 1979 as the Railgon Company, Railgon would go on to acquire a fleet of standardized, high-quality gondola cars that were pooled and could be freely relo... (more)
A mighty fine slogan for a mighty fine railroad.
Consolidated Rail
One of the major freight and passenger car builders for the railroad industry, Pullman-Standard produced some of the best in luxury and durability as this boxcar complete with original builder's l... (more)
One of the famous logos of the 1970's, the Railbox "X" logo continues to live on as it sees new life on the sides of TBOX and FBOX boxcars.
The famous Family Lines herald still looks great after so many years.
It's hard to keep a legend down.