Having traveled its last miles, CP 5824 awaits further movement to be dismantled by the scrapper's torch along side GM's Car Assembly Plant

After it stopped hauling logs, Oregon, California & Eastern spent a few months switching out an on-line oil distributor. When a spur was built to connect this plant with Burlington Northern, OC&E ... (more)

"NYAR Passes Gershow on the Bay Ridge Branch" New York & Atlantic Railway's RS-20 passes Gershow Recycling in Brooklyn while heading west on the Bay Ridge Ridge Branch

With the next batch of high hoods slated for auction in mid-August, we continue to be fortunate enough to have these classic engines in Columbia. While they swap cars around the yard a majority o... (more)

A bread salesman from Wisconsin, Richard Jensen acquired his first steam locomotive, GTW 5629, in 1959 and refurbished it for use in steam fan trips based out of Chicago in the 1960s. Jensen woul... (more)

To the Torch

Three Conrail Alcos, two RSD12’s and an RSD15, stand among the freight cars in Conway Yard. The three Schenectady products are coming from the Altoona dead line, and... (more)

At Cresson Steel, a bunch of old C40-9 & SD90MAC cabs sit in the dirt after being gutted and have met the torch, kinda sad to see these old war horses like this after many years of great service, ... (more)

After working CN 546 at Oshawa, I decided to venture out to the interchange track where CP 5755 sits silently, her fate sealed with the scrapper at K&K recycling in Pickering. Built in London, Ont... (more)

The first C40-8 delivered to NS sits at the scrapper waiting for the torch as the EMDX T4 units sit with the stored power in Roanoke yard.

End of the line for former N&W Alco C630 131. She and an unidentified sister are being cut up at Cycle Systems in Roanoke. The 3000 HP unit, built in 1966 and originally numbered 1131, spent her l... (more)

Western competitors wait for the torch out east.

After several rail cars got away and ran off the tracks across from the fairgrounds in Columbia, SC after the scrap yard tried to move the cars, CSX found it necessary to bring in a wrecker to pla... (more)

Only two of Conrail’s immediate predecessors rostered E8’s, and both contributed examples to the Conrail roster. Many of the Penn Central’s large roster of the EMD passenger units were conv... (more)

Amtrak no. 8 meets its fate? Amtrak's Beech Grove facility has been the resting place for this GE P42DC for quite some time. This locomotive was involved in a head on collision accident several ye... (more)

Conrail RSD5 6802 awaits its fate in the deadline at Collinwood, Ohio. Unfortunately, that fate was the scrapper’s torch.