Scrapping an ex-BNSF SD70MAC

Erie scene with many ex-BNSF SD70MAC's having met their demise.

The End.

They've seen better days........... Three ex NS veterans rust away at Cresson Steel as they await their long over-do demise. They have been scalped of all usable parts with some.

Ex BNSF SD70MAC's getting scrapped and cannibalized. Sad sight to see.

Ex BNSF SD70MAC's getting scrapped and cannibalized. Sad sight to see.

Ex BNSF SD70MAC's have reached the end of the line. Time to say goodbye.

Grisslee scene with many former BNSF SD70MAC's have reached the end of the line. They made a lot of money for their master. Now it's time to say goodbye.

The cab of 9549 gazes at the skeletal remains of the locomotive it once belonged to, a few days ago. It’s disheartening that the Railroad couldn’t modernize these machines to meet the current ... (more)

Sun sets on the almost scrapped 70Mac's. Except for the Prime movers and the trucks everything else on the locomotives have been torn apart. 6 of 7 locomotives have been scrapped. 8878, 9997, 8939... (more)

BNSF 8939 along with 9997, both in H2 paint scheme are being scrapped. A total of 35 70Macs are slated to meet the torch in the near future.

Graveyard of NS Power RJ Corman recently acquired 14 ex-NS SD70Ms with notched nose cabs, two of which ended up on their Pennsylvania Lines. Here we see two of them parked up in Cresson, P... (more)

The WW train 102 switches my scrap yard and drops an ill-fated ballast hopper that was deemed cut-local by CSX. From this angle it really looks like a car that got forgotten on its side on a mode... (more)

Just two-and-a-half years old, Southern Pacific U33C has been stripped to its bare bones and sits on a whisker track at Southern Pacific's Taylor Yard, in Los Angeles CA, due to being a bit too cl... (more)

My excavator-mounted shear cuts up railcars from a recent derailment as a coal train heads east on the Rivanna Sub. We have a field division that specializes in mobile scrap cleanup jobs such as ... (more)