A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train blurs past a graveyard of semaphore signal masts lined up at Superior, Montana, after their removal from usefulness on October 6, 2005. One of o... (more)

UPY 139 sitting at the North End of Settegast Yard waiting to be scrapped

At Progress Rail Services, on President's Island in Memphis, several units that once ran the Union Pacific rails are in all states of undress. The engines UPY 940 (ex-MP 3503), UP 9184 and UP 9230... (more)

No, I'm not that one. While ex-Michigan Star Clipper (neé-Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad) F7 725 has grabbed the headlines this week with its purchase and transfer to The Stourbridge Line, it ha... (more)

A quartet of Union Pacific C40-8 Locomotives, #9184, #9230, #9295 and #9135, along with UPY S6-1B #940 and many rail cars, are seen below in the process of being scrapped at Progress Rail located ... (more)

Flowers at the Gravesite

Conrail GP9B 3807 awaits the torch in the Altoona dead line. The curvature of the frame is a good indicator of the cause of death.

Winchester & Western road slug #210 sitting at the shops on its death bed. Several weeks after I got this shot, 210 met its fate with the torch.

Wall-to-wall GG-1s; left to right- 4885, 4822, 4891, 4850, and 4809.

A view from US Rts. 11 & 15 beyond the north end of the locomotive shop features NIMX SCRAP GG1, previously CR 4809. Looks like white lined 4809 has one more trip to make- Newark , NJ, ending at N... (more)

Still wearing their PRR yellow stripes, the 4850 and 4891 await their demise in the Rutherford scrap line.

UP 9230, UP 9295, UP 9135, and the string of cars behind them have likely made their final trip as they sit on one of the yard tracks on President's Island. Soon a CN switcher will come and drag t... (more)

Among the confines of President's Island, UP 9184 and UPY 940 (the Little Rock Centennial locomotive) await the scrappers torch amid the remains of scrapped rolling stock at Progress Rail Services... (more)

"LIRR Cabin Car for Scrap" One of Long Island Rail Road's surviving hacks sits on a flatcar along with another in Holban Yard shortly after being detrucked and prepped for transp... (more)

"Long Island Hacks for Scrap" One of Long Island Rail Road's surviving hacks sits on a flatcar along with another in Holban Yard shortly after being detrucked and prepped for transport to ... (more)

"Long Island Caboose for Scrap" One of Long Island Rail Road's surviving hacks sits on a flatcar along with another in Holban Yard shortly after being detrucked and prepped for transport t... (more)