Smoky Mountain #440 rusts away buried in the back on an industrial park in Fletcher, NC on this late summer afternoon. Compare to a photo of this same unit in 1970. http://www.railpictures.net... (more)

Reagan Recession Storage

A downturn in the economy in the early 1980s caused the Union Pacific to store power that was deemed surplus in late 1981. Much of it was stored in the warm... (more)

The end of the Conrail electric years affords a rare opportunity to see an E-44 and an E-33 coupled nose-to-nose in the scrap line at Rutherford.

Rusting away. HRRC 2737 is one of two High Hood Ex NS GP38's sitting at the HRRC Shops. The units will most likely never be seen operating any time soon.

The engine deadline at Huntington is mostly of SD40-2's waiting for there rebuilds into SD40-3's in this line is the last CSX in Conrail paint and a Iowa Chicago and Eastern engine.

The stored units and various types of freight cars in the yards at Roanoke provide leading lines into the Roanoke skyline, what little of one there is.

The massive deadlines of stored units in Roanoke sit on a cool, windy night before the 611 festivities began in the morning. The former BN and Soo Line units here are shown off nicely in the ambie... (more)

CEFX 6024 is one of many engines currently stored at Roanoke many of the NS engines are waiting to be scrapped.

Four LTV F9's await the scrappers torch after derailing in January of 1997. The runaway train claimed units 4212, 4213, 4220, and 4221. The crew was injured but survived.

Three former Idaho Northern & Pacific GP40s await an unknown fate on the moribund Pacific Imperial Railroad after suffering a collision when they rolled unmanned into a bulkhead car. Their future ... (more)

Former Aspen gold and silver Rio Grande caboose No. 01483 sits in a vacant lot at Fremont, Nebraska, on May 22, 2014.

After the MILW ceased operations on many secondary lines in Wisconsin, several shortlines took over. The Central Wisconsin RR Co. took over the Janesville-Waukesha portion of the line, utilizing a... (more)

Farewell...Just over a year ago, the scrapping of the first Amtrak AEM-7s commenced. With the last few active units having little time left on the road, Amtrak has announced a "Farewe... (more)

The C&NW dead line at Oelwein as taken from the roof of a GP30. This unit may have had a second life on the FRVR.