"The First Bite" One of Gershow Recycling's excavators equipped with a hydraulic shear takes it's "first bite" from Louisville & Indiana Railroad SW1200 #9321, beginning the scrapping proc... (more)

"Ducking Under Pitkin Ave" Louisville & Indiana Railroad SW1200 #9321 & NYA SW1001 #101 have just ducked under Pitkin Avenue on Gershow Recycling's track just off the Bay Ridge Branch in t... (more)

"Death March" Louisville & Indiana Railroad SW1200 #9321 begins it's short "death march" down Gershow Recycling's track just off the Bay Ridge Branch in the East New York area of Brooklyn.... (more)

"Tanks Drained" Louisville & Indiana Railroad SW1200 #9321 sits "coupled" to NYA SW1001 #101 on the Bay Ridge Branch in the East New York area of Brooklyn. It's fuel tank has just been dra... (more)

"L&I SW awaits It's Fate in Brooklyn" Louisville & Indiana Railroad SW1200 #9321 sits dormant on the "Heritage Paper" track just off of the Bay Ridge Branch in the Brownsville area of Broo... (more)

On a snowy day in Cresson, a couple of cabs from a pair of retired NS units, one tossed on an old school bus, sit at Cresson Steel. Taken from public property.

On a snowy day in Cresson, a couple of cabs from a pair of retired NS units sit at Cresson Steel. Taken from public property.

1277 makes a brief stop as the hand breaks are released on a cut of two scrap gondolas at CMC Steel.

A Rare B&M FM P 12-42 #2 Passenger Lightweight loco sits its last days in a scrap yard in Leeds Maine

MILW H16-44 nos. 424 and 434 relax in the weeds near the roundhouse at Savanna, IL in January 1976. Their duties are over and they await the scrapper's torch on this snowless winter day.

WRRX 1277, built for the C&NW pauses briefly with a cut of loaded scrap gondolas before continuing about its switching duties. 1277 is employed by the CMC (formerly Gerdau) steel mill in Knoxville... (more)

Among the confines of Odus Pack Motors in North Little Rock, the fall sun fades away as a series of locomotives have reached their final resting place after decades of service. Included in this as... (more)

An old string of Stored ATSF C40-8W's rot away in BNSF's Murray Yard. Not too much time for these old soldiers before the torch with BNSF starting to round them up again.

"Retired M3s at Blissville Yard" An M3 Pair (LI 9781/ 9782) sits on Track 4 in Blissville Yard waiting to be de-trucked, loaded onto flat cars and transported to Frontier Metals ... (more)

The cab of an Amtrak F40 rests in the weeds next to its frame at Larry's Truck and Electric in McDonald, OH. Although it is sad to see so many locomotives in this state, many of their components h... (more)