Norfolk Southern's OCS deadheads west out of Altoona while passing the reminates of Friday's latest derailment on Horseshoe Curve.

Is This Where You Wanted the Grain Delivered?

While on a trip to see C&O 614 pull a trip from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, we had some time to look around the Steel City. At McKees Ro... (more)

Former Reading Railroad Alco FA-1 #301 sits outside Milepost Hobbies on the afternoon of May 22, 2019.

Foaming at Hamilton: First Responders apply some foam to put out a fire on an Amtrak electrical traction vehicle at Hamilton. Meanwhile, an Amtrak crew waits for the chance to move the ou... (more)

Indiana NorthEastern Railroad's GP30 4216 has been stripped of parts and sits outside the company shops at Hudson, Indiana. The 4216 came off the EMD LaGrange assembly floor as Chesapeake & Ohio's... (more)

Due to reasons unknown to me, contractors doing work around the TEXRail line took quite an interesting approach getting their truck across the track causing delays with TEXRail trains. Joking asid... (more)

The Mississippi River has caused alot of headaches in the Midwest with the railroads this spring. The river crested at Burlington, IA, (19 miles upstream) on 6-02 at the 3rd highest crest on recor... (more)

The result of a switch left open. Around 40 loads of coal derailed near Stanwood, Iowa. No reports of injuries.

Severed—forever?
In early March 2014, a 30-foot boulder came crashing down the mountainside above Minturn, slamming onto the Tennessee Pass main line below while breaking in two and de... (more)

There are several cabs at Cresson Steel off of Norfolk Southern Dash 9s. The locomotives have been rebuilt with new cabs, leaving the old cabs to be scrapped.

Three NS C44-9W cabs now stand silent in a field of scrap in Cresson, PA at Cresson Steel. The dash nines were not scrapped, but rather rebuilt with new cabs.

A79 being dismantled for scrap in the Melbourne Freight Terminal at South Dynon.

The Torrance Local nears the end of the branch at US Gypsum with a pair of heavily tagged geeps for power.

2019's winter was a tough one for all the railroads in the Midwest. A major storm hit on Saturday February 23rd. The storm dump rain, ice, and snow, followed by blizzard like winds. B41 left out o... (more)

When key components on freight cars fail and the subsequent repairs can’t be made at the location said car is set out, then you got to improvise a temporary solution to get the car running again... (more)