While railfanning on the former Clinchfield RR, I came across this box car sitting in Spruce Pine North Carolina.

Hydraulic lift to remove a truck from this old maintenance box car from 1890.

DRGW 63770 is unique in that it is a veteran Rio Grande Box Car and because it has largely escaped the tagger's paint cans.

A Burlington Northern Box Car #64271 sports a Great Northern "Rocky" logo. One of the BNSF predecessor railroads was widely recognized by a logo called Rocky the Goat, which was the ma... (more)

Oddball Old Boxcar Northampton and Bath 559 an old 40 feet car/ taken In Chicago in the winter of 1976. This is the only one of these I have ever seen.

On The Box Car Big Stage. The Canadian Pacific/CP Holiday Train returned to New York State for the first time since 2019, and the crowds really came out to celebrate the event. One Monday, ... (more)

A Rare Find! While waiting in Thurmond for one of the 1987 New River Trains to pass through, I photographed this box car sitting beside the Engine Shed. It wasn't until recently that I came across... (more)

A lucky find on a siding east of Pueblo, Colorado is this Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad boxcar DRGW 63770. It was built in 1963 and is all the more spectacular that it has survived in the ... (more)

A Nevada Northern Railway conductor slowly brings steam locomotives No. 40 and No. 93 back to a hook on a string of boxcars and passenger coaches as the epic, doubleheader prepares to depart for a... (more)

There are few freight cars that are more distinctive than the B&O’s “wagontop” box cars. Conceived out of the necessity to replace older double-sheathed boxcars with steel ones, the class M1... (more)

Freshly painted Soo Line box cars are nearly ready for revenue service in Shops Yard in September of 1983.

A long abandoned hopper and a steel box car sit frozen in time, serving as a time capsule preserving a part of Mount Union's past. That is, so long as someone, or some group, remains in a position... (more)

During the fall of 2017, Railbox 40188 went in to the TTX freight car shop in North Aiugusta, South Carolina, looking tattered in an old tagged Rbox scheme, but emerged as a rolling cancer awarene... (more)

Five months old, a Florida East Coast boxcar rolls through Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania.

Escanaba & Lake Superior was another of the many short lines that tried to cash in on the short-lived per diem box car market. Here one of their cars rolls through McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. ... (more)