Former Metra EMD E8 521 (ex-CNW) is being scrapped by Lewis Brothers as NRE continues to purge the equipment at the Silvis facility prior to its closure this year. Former Metra E8 516 has been scr... (more)

Class 45 Sulzer No 45030 and English-Electric 40042 are being scrapped at Derby loco works in 1981. Looks like someone has bought the panel with the loco number on from 40042.

Survivor. Juniata Valley Railroad 446 (née-NYC 8983, SW9) moves in to switch out Joe Krentzman & Son Inc. on Thursday, November 17, 2020. A quick glance to the foreground reveals a number ... (more)

The scrapper does their thing, reducing these once mighty former Amtrak electrics into bits and pieces to be recycled.

Locomotive Graveyard. This was a wild scene not many get to witness. It reminded me of the part in Lion King where Simba and Nala wander off to the elephant grave yard. Carcasses of locom... (more)

TOAST! These former Amtrak AEM-7s were seen at the scrap yard, having been reduced into massive hunks of metal before being turned into razor blades.

Cycles of Life. When starting the SD70ACu program, Norfolk Southern purchased 100 ex-Union Paciifc SD9043MACs units in September 2014 from EMD/Progress Rail and 10 more from CEFX in June 2016. On... (more)

May the NS 8462 rest in pieces.

A dying EMD's last request....just to have a little company. Metra F40C 610 and IHB SW1200 2256 create an extremely sad sight at the entrance to NRE Dixmoor this afternoon. Lot of good times with ... (more)

Not much left of NS 8462 as she is scrapped in Chattanooga.

NS 8462 is getting scrapped , its been in storage since 2016 , after being wrecked

The scrappers are in the middle of cutting up a group of Wisconsin Central locomotives at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, as seen on Christmas day 1994. The cab of EMD SD45 No. 6655 now sits on the ... (more)

It’s Christmas day and the scrappers working in Wisconsin Central’s Shops Yard locomotive facility at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, are home with their families enjoying the holiday. In the fo... (more)

Organ donor at the morgue - This locomotive has breathed its last, and is being stripped of usable parts before being sent to the crematorium. Piles of donated parts from earlier patients lay in t... (more)

End of the line. an aging Southern hopper meets the end of its service by meeting the scrappers torch.