Note bent frame on rear of unit, unit to be scrapped after being in a head on.

This is whats left of CSX B40-8 5947 after a head on. in ref to the belowe comment, i had the unit num keyed in wrong and have made the correction.

The end of the line for the foemer Chessie System and Family Lines B30-7s. Over the years I shot all 80 units that were on the CSX roster including the derated B36-7 5581 which made 81 units.

The hiss of cutting torches fills the air as scrappers cut the remains of a former SAR steam locomotive at the site of an open-air railroad museum near Krugersdorp, South Africa. The locomotive wa... (more)

Ex-GTW bought for scrap but used for switching gons loaded with scrap to the furnaces.

In a downpour the work of scrapping this ex-DEEX U30C continues, now moving to trucks after removing the hood doors.

Sitting at the end of one of the many tracks at LTEX, BNSF 1484 and several other engines face a uncertain future.

'Black and Blue' is the theme in the Altoona deadlines. If I remember correctly, many of these former Conrail geeps haven't turned a wheel since the merger, either being directly retired or in lon... (more)

A view slightly askew of Larry's with some new among the old.

It's undeniable that there truly is quite the array of power to be seen sitting in the LTEX shops. From SW1500's to C30-7's, and Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range to Ohio Central, there's plenty her... (more)

A wide array of various locomotives sit dormant at the LTEX shops, not knowing if their fate will be with the scrapper, or be the beginning of a new life.

Paying respect to my old friends from the Missabe. There are ten DMIR locomotives at the right side of this line. I confirmed 306,208,221,217,317. Also nine GP15s make up the left line.

ACR 159 rests in the dead line at Steelton after an encounter with a large truck in Sault Ste Marie almost 2 years earlier. The economic downturn of the early eighties was not kind to the ACR's tr... (more)

Rest In Pieces. This locomotive and I have had an odd relationship. From the time I was old enough to drive by myself, I had been periodically visiting this engine at her former home in Nor... (more)