Missouri Pacific Freight Crosses Kansas

A Denver bound Missouri Pacific freight powers across the Kansas prairie at Frederick.  A thunderhead forms as the train races into the evening.
Wheat across the prairie begins an uneasy blowing as the storm picks up power.  The train rumbles onward.  Its carloads bound for the Rockies and beyond. Box cars marked Route of the Eagles, Rio Grande, Burlington Northern and Western Pacific hustle past as the way car vanishes into the distance.

 

The Intermodal Container-Genius In Design

An intermodal container is a solution.  It brings many answers in many ways.
As trains roll across America with containers stacked two-high, the container's design is truly genius.  As the world moves faster, the ease of stacking #intermodal containers upon ships, interchanging at terminals and transferring from train to truck makes the container the perfect solution to the antiquated shipping crate.
Intermodal containers are flexible.  One stacks upon another.  This one carries finished steel, that one may carry child's toys, another may carry coffee.  The simplicity of their design makes them truly an elegant invention, truly a beast of burden, carrying the load of our economy without recognition.
The #intermodal container is perfect for carrying goods from one town to another yet can carry goods across the globe.  As manufacturing is on the rise in more versatile ways, truly the intermodal container stands ready for the task.

Railroading-The Transportation Solution

We live in an age of solutions.  Everyday we look to find answers.  Whether it is in the products we buy or the way we commute to work.
Most of the time, in looking for solutions, we as consumers do not think of the way the products we use everyday are manufactured.  At times we think of their structure.  But often, we do not think of how these products arrived at our store shelves.
As we drive our car, we think of the traffic we are stuck in.  Late for work once again.  We do not have time to think that our car was delivered on a train.
We look around, and we think there must be a solution.  A commuter train races into the city.  It, indeed provides the most visible solution to the congestion in our cities, as less and less traffic flows on the clogged arteries of our interstates and city streets.  But often, we do not see the freight yards full of intermodal containers and the long range solution they provide to both our environment and traffic congestion.
More and more freight on our railroad system brings promise.  Not only for today, but for generations to come.  With manufacturing on the rise, railroading truly is the cost-effective, eco-friendly solution we all seek for the transportation of freight and passengers.

New York Central- The Scenic Water Level Route

New York Central and its competitor the Pennsylvania Railroad dominated railroading throughout the Northeast and North Central United States.  New York Central's elegant, famous 20th Century Limited passenger train raced from Grand Central Station to LaSalle Street Station Chicago on a racetrack that followed both the Hudson River and the Great Lakes.  This advantage it needed over Pennsylvania Railroad's shorter route to Chicago over the Allegheny mountains via the Horseshoe Curve.  Both railroads fought a bitter rivalry until their ultimate merger into Penn Central in 1968.

A Day in the Life of Railroads of the Midwest

Railroads of the Midwest link agriculture, mining and manufacturing with flag stops, small communities and urban centers.  Stretched out across the plains, the height of prairie gain elevators mark the importance of a community and its location on the railroad.  The brief silence of the landscape is broken by the arrival of today's local freight.  It brings manufactured goods that farms rely upon.  It exchanges a cut of empty hoppers with loads of grain bound for the city.  Such is a day in the life of the railroads of the Midwest.

America Needs Freight Rail

America's freight railroads link mining, industries, ports, customers and consumers to fuel our economy.  Rail is the eco-freindly, fuel-efficient method to haul the goods we need everyday.  Railroads built our communities and continue to make them strong.  America needs freight rail.

Chicago Burlington and Quincy-Way of the Zephyrs

Chicago Burlington and Quincy connected the agriculture and mining of the Midwest and Rocky Mountain States key with gateway cities throughout its route.  Chicago Burlington and Quincy also provided the eastern leg of the famous California Zephyr Passenger train between Chicago and Denver.  Proudly painted upon the sides of its locomotives the slogans, "Everywhere West" and "Way of the Zephyrs"