Ouch MBTA 3262 was damaged in a collision in 2017 and subsequently placed into storage at Mattapan. It has since been cut up and used to rebuild PCC #3260.

Comet Funeral The Northside Extra shoves into the Everett Coke Works with two CTC-1B cab cars heading to Schnitzer Steel for scrap.

Rolling Scrap. With NYNJ Rail's locomotives dealing with the inbounds coming from New Jersey on the NYNJ 100 barge, the yard in Brooklyn, New York is usually bare on the morning of March 25... (more)

WW102 passes part of my scrap yard with a new crane in the foreground and a relatively new scrap gondola owned by one of our customers, FE Trading. If you notice closely the cars are already lo... (more)

Engine #148 steams past a pair of abandoned tractors through the Lake Placid orange groves. The 1929 Ford Model A followed us up from Palmdale and was posed at multiple locations along the rest of... (more)

One of the earlier AEM-7DCs is first to be scrapped. It was dismantled into three chunks, which were hauled offsite by trailer to be further reduced. Amtrak ended up creating an official eBay acco... (more)

Cresson Steel NS 8717 is one of five former-NS C40-8s stored in Cresson, PA. Though they've been parked at a scrap metal facility for the better part of a decade, they're still standing.

A leased LTEX SW9 shuffles scrap gons at the Midwest Steel & Alloy scrapyard in Youngstown, Ohio located alongside the CSX New Castle Subdivision. The crew has just run these two cars over the rai... (more)

On a sunny morning in Chicago's south side, HZRX CF7 #1500 shoves a short train of scrap gons into one of the mills at South Shore Recycling. This unit was built as a Santa Fe F7A and has been wor... (more)

When I was ten, in the "Roanoke Times" newspaper, I saw a shot of N&W steamers lined up in rows with sparks of acetylene cutters coming up somewhere. Here, in a contaminated field by a ... (more)

UP Y549 (ex-C&NW 4404) is back on home rails as it switches the scrapyard in Racine, WI. in April of 2014. The S.C. Johnson Research Tower, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, looms in the background.... (more)

SPS 866 has been parked in the NW Industrial area with other historical pieces of equipment for over a decade. After BNSF land locked the units by cutting switching in the area and lack of space a... (more)

Dead locomotives waits out their last days in Chicago Heights with their fate already sealed by the cutting torch.

All that remains of KCS 7014 is the cab as it is reflected in a pool of water left from a clearing Winter storm. This is one of about 1,000 engines and cabs I saw while visiting the Larry Truck &... (more)

It's the end of the line for a trio of switchers that spent almost 75 years in Bethlehem, PA, mostly working the Bethlehem Steel plant. They were part of a large group of switchers that had been s... (more)