Scenes like this were all too common in the late 1980s and 1990s as railroads replaced their caboose fleets with end-of-train devices. Most of this gathering would be sold with a few being donated... (more)

In November 1985, the D&RGW took its Subdivision 7 mainline out of service between Woods Cross and Roy, Utah (23.69 miles). The right of way would later be purchased by the Utah Transit Authority,... (more)

Construction is underway to enclose this entire area (note the large yellow beam) for real estate and commercial development. A Northeast Regional is about to arrive at Penn Station and was captu... (more)

These two rebuilds have been stripped of usable parts and ride on shop trucks while awaiting scrapping.

The yellow flags on the side of the F9s is a nice touch but it is Old Glory that takes center stage as the final LTV Steel Mining Company mainline ore train departs for the dock at Taconite Harbor... (more)

Eastbound crosses over goat lick trestle on Marias Pass with fall colors in the valley.

Some of the remaining locomotives that plied the rails for Erie Mining Co. and later LTV Steel Mining Co. sit in what once the bustling pellet yard of the massive taconite plant. The vegetation h... (more)

And like that NS 5424 gets marked up for its future model design

Separated by a century of rail progress, a new BNSF 9083 (Mexico built in late 2012) pushes a Powder River Basin coal train past a D&RG cattle car that was built in 1904.

Concealed by growing vegetation and rubble from the site of a former mining operation, the tail end of Norfolk Southern's Sand Lick branch slithers in a S curve formation at the site of abandoned ... (more)

These were trying times in the 1980s. The railroads were beginning to recover from the 1970s. Train crews were getting smaller, cabooses were gone, Conrail was turning away loose car traffic in fa... (more)

The brand new yard is being built for the Superior Silica sand plant located at Poskin, Wisconsin. Now Canadian National, this line used to be operated by the Soo Line railroad and then by the Wis... (more)

Ballast train from Dresser, WI eases down the new siding towards River Junction Yard. The crew would roll through the yard until told at the last minute they had a pick-up which they were less th... (more)

Forty years ago, in 1973, the last train rumbled across this line. Today, this is a place for the intrepid explorer to enjoy solitude while pondering the vestiges of a lost way of rural life. It... (more)

September 11th, 1996 - The day that the Southern Pacific was officially merged with the Union Pacific. And on that day, Southern Pacific GP40-2 7677 was found in the SP's yard in City of Industry... (more)