"The Final Resting Place" Built in October 1974, U18B 9501 has been a parts donor during it's time on the Pickens Railroad since 2002. All that remains now is for scrap prices in the market to ris... (more)

Around 11:15 p.m. on Sept. 6 a southbound freight train heading from Birmingham, AL to Waycross, GA encountered a person whom intentionally walked in front of it "a statement from the crew o... (more)

We Have All Been Here Before

When many railfans think of the Southern Pacific, they think of dirty, run-down locomotives. But this was generally not the case with the SP - not until... (more)

A string of Norfolk Southern Dash 8s await their fate at the scrapper in Cresson, PA. The yard was very active on various scrapping projects. A set of RJ Corman power can be seen waiting on their ... (more)

Lawn ornament

To give you a closer look at the damage on the what was the only operating D8.5-40CW from the front. It has officially been nine days since the collision that led to the derailment of NS 164-20 (B... (more)

Work continues to get the derailment from a few days ago cleaned up and getting the junction back into service. A day or two ago after the crossing accident, Norfolk Southern along with the few ra... (more)

Fatal Bumps and Bruises?

Sitting forlornly outside Amtrak's Beech Grove Shops is P42DC 66, damaged in a wreck involving a semi truck on February 19, 2016. This engine, wearing the ca... (more)

These Jets are Grounded

New Haven’s ten 1954 General Electric EP5 rectifier electric locomotives had extremely loud blowers, earning them the moniker “jets”. With their slee... (more)

An Unlikely Duo

Driving between industrial road locations in Cleveland, we stumbled across this pair of electric switchers hundreds of miles from the wires that powered them. Altho... (more)

The 902 is chopped into three chunks to be loaded onto trucks for further dismantling off site. Units 950, 951, and 953 wait to meet their demise in the background. Now a year later, the farewel... (more)

The cab roof of GTW 7911, an EMD NW2, sits amongst its shattered remains in a Battle Creek scrap yard in the summer of 1984. This locomotive, built in February of 1942, was one of 15 in the order ... (more)

After bringing in a couple empty scrap gons, Steel Dynamic's SW1 uncouples and pulls away from the cars as the excavator to the left gets fired up, preparing to load the gons.

The end of the Conrail electric years affords a rare opportunity to see an E-44 and an E-33 coupled nose-to-nose in the scrap line at Rutherford.

Just a few minutes before the taking of this photo, I was looking out upon the yards and beautiful mountains of Roanoke from a nice Vantage point for viewing both, and I couldn't help but notice t... (more)