The hours tick literally by for lines of steam engines at Transnet's Millsite - all soon to be no more in a couple of months, as on-site scrap metal merchants demolish the remaining steam stock.

Conrail big Alco Century C630 was involved in a pretty bad derailment and resided at the Collinwood shops like this until scrapped.

Vic Berry's scrapyard in Leicester was the place to visit in the 80s where pyramids of locos were created which were going for scrap.

Engines retired from service, stored in yard.

The PRR scrap pile with tenders and tires the way it looked at the PRR backshops.

One of three that won't make it thru the day, this old F is being dismembered for parts and scrap. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

An old shot from 1977. Ex-Great Western Castle class loco no. 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe in scrapyard condition at Tyseley. This photo is interesting as restoration of this loco is currently almo... (more)

Bogie wheels, cylinders and the bottom of a flame-cut smokebox - the last earthly remains of a once-mighty steam loco, now departed for the great marshalling yard in the sky!

Former DMR, BN, NS, SP, UP, CNW, and WC units are all visible here, among all the other unknown shortlines.

Three rows of WC SD45's await their appointment with the cutting torch.

An Erie Lackawanna RS3, renumbered by Conrail, with that number lined-out, indicating that this unit is off roster. This had been EL #1039, and prior to that, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western #901,... (more)

ALCO Century 628 #6743 is missing all her front windows, as she sits on the dead line and suffers the indiginity of having become a parts source to keep other C628s running. She was delivered to ... (more)

A U28B meets the torch.

An ex-BC Rail C36-7E in primer paint sits at the front of Progress Rail with an ex-NS C39-8 that is awaiting an uncertain fate, along with numerous other old soldiers from various builders and rai... (more)