Gramps. UTLX 55172, painted for Gramps Oil, sits with other historic equipment at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, CO.

A bumper sticker lowered onto the northbound lane of Division Avenue at the grade crossing of Union Pacific’s Spokane Subdivision main line suggests it’s time to mellow out based on your locat... (more)

Weirton Steel Company in Weirton, West Virginia has a small fleet of tank cars in revenue service. Here one sporting a corrosive placard passes through Mingo Junction, Ohio.

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Three-foot gauge tank car UTLX No. 55172 is displayed at the Colorado Railroad Museum at Golden on August 23, 2021. In 1939, 25 frameless standard gauge tank cars of 60,000-pound ... (more)

Visiting a freight car scrapper brings to mind the mythical elephants’ graveyard, as one is surrounded by the massive carcasses of rail cars whose useful lives have ended. Morbidly slicing them... (more)

Hooker (HOKX) tank car No. 132482 is in the middle of repairs in the busy Progress Rail Services car shop at Amarillo, Texas, on June 15, 2012.

Two Hooker (HOKX) tank cars are repaired in the busy Progress Rail Services car shop at Amarillo, Texas, on June 15, 2012.

Randy, a volunteer for the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, makes welds in bolt holes below the coupler housing where a plate will hold the coupler's draft gear and the coupler its... (more)

Protecting the shove, on not so well maintained track. Photo by Jeff Stupar.

An elusive standard gauge tank car sits forlorn among narrow gauge hoppers in the woods of what was once the bustling Mount Union yard of the East Broad Top Railroad.

GATX tank cars came in a seemingly unlimited variety of sizes and paint schemes, for many specialized loads. Here a car of SCM titanium dioxide rolls through Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

The Southway Crane & Rigging machine digs in as it begins to lift the A-end of GATX tank car number 69610 who fell in-between the gauge earlier in the day. more)

The Haywire's brand new safety training tank car sits at KCS Knoche Yard.

Rolling Stock: KCS 972

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A close-up of the Union Pacific tank car named Jim Adams during a scheduled stop for the UP 844 train in Wynne, Arkansas. I didn't realize the flag was its own piece with a decal attached to the t... (more)

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The Baltimore & Ohio kept company-service tank cars at some of its engine facilities, presumably for fuel storage. Photos exist showing cars that appear to be of later vinta... (more)