Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) line car No. 3332 sits in the yard at Mattapan, Massachusetts, on September 12, 2003. This “double-end” car was built by Pullman-Standard in 1... (more)

Two fairly rare Electro-Motive Division locomotives sit together at Western Rail Incorporated’s locomotive facility at Airway Heights west of Spokane, Washington, on September 19, 2015. The uniq... (more)

On April 22, 2017, a long line of stored Union Pacific locomotives sits on the old main line (now bypassed with a new alignment) between Pantano and Benson, Arizona, which includes the Empirita ho... (more)

Three Union Pacific EMD GP30Bs are stored at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in May of 1984. Only 40 of these unique locomotives were built, all for UP. Middle locomotive No. 731B is one of eight units equi... (more)

Former Canadian National GMD F9B No. 6622 still hangs onto whats left of its heritage at Alamosa, Colorado, on August 31, 2013. Built in January 1957 for passenger service on CN, The unit went to ... (more)

Burlington Northern F7A No. 732—a former Northern Pacific locomotive—is one of six BN F units stored at Denver’s stockyards for a time in the mid-1980s.

Six Burlington Northern F units were stored at Denver’s stockyards for a time in the mid-1980s. BN F7 No. 732 is a former Northern Pacific locomotive.

A group of Burlington Northern locomotives are stored at Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 11, 1985. The string in the foreground is all-GE U28Bs and U30Bs, while behind is all-E... (more)

After Canadian National merged the Wisconsin Central in 2001, with the sale approved on September 7, 2001, some of WC’s locomotives soon found themselves gathering in storage lines. On November ... (more)

Three Rio Grande GP30s rest silently at the OmniTRAX facilities at Loveland, Colorado, on November 27, 2001. D&RGW Nos. 3026, 3011 and 3028 where on the property, and we were there to pick one out... (more)

A Great Northern caboose rests on a lot near the BNSF yard in Fremont, Nebraska, on May 22, 2014. The car is former GN No. 126—later Burlington Northern No. 10086—now belonging to Empire Build... (more)

Former Burlington Northern E9 No. 9912 faces former Bessemer and Lake Erie F7 No. 715 at Nashville’s Tennessee Central Railway Museum on a rainy May 9, 2014. To quote Neil Young, “Rust never s... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD45 No. 362 is on the west end of a string of stored MRL locomotives, that includes 8 GP9s, a SW1200 and another SD45, in Livingston, Montana, on July 6, 2001.

Nearly 30 years after E&LS bought five SD9s from bankrupt Minnesota iron ore mining firm Reserve Mining, the units still wear their brown and cream Reserve scheme. Now stored due to more powerful ... (more)

Former Rio Grande coach No. 1012 sits in repose at Napa, California, on March 13, 2006. In 1960, Rio Grande bought eight of these ancient (built in 1915) Pullman-built coaches from Northern Pacifi... (more)