Only just an hour into the northbound Coast Starlight’s journey, disaster has struck. A large truck was fouling the single main around 11:15 AM Wednesday morning when Amtrak #14 came through at ... (more)

Santa Fe 3282 rests on its side, the victim of a derailment just north of highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Note the front coupler has been completely snapped off. Heavy rain storms caused track damage... (more)

The engineer on Santa Fe 5350 proceeds very slowly on the north track past the derailment site located just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rain storms caused track damage and ATSF 3338,... (more)

A Santa Fe westbound has stopped on the shoe-fly around the wreck site near Cajon Summit. Heavy rains washed out the double main line, leaving the tracks hanging in the air above the washout. Sant... (more)

Train wreck at Superior WV – photo by Howard Hutchison from my collection. The railroad calls this location Huger which is approximately three miles east of Welch WV on the N&W Pocahontas Divisi... (more)

Nearly a year later, 8133 waits bruised and battered in Altoona for attention. This loco was damaged at Hiram Ga after train 370 derailed in November of 2021.

A CSX worker observes CSX 6539 sitting in the trackside gravel a couple days after an eastbound train derailed two locomotives and 20+ cars at CP 37 in Wellington, Ohio. The 6539 was left upright ... (more)

Bad day at Broomfield, freight and passenger train collision in September 1958 involving CB&Q EMD E7 number 9936B and CB&Q EMD F3 number 700D. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Big derailment at Irondale

Oops! The hostler crew had a little trouble at BN's former GN engine facilities at Harrison St. in Minneapolis when SDP40 appeared to split a switch during an engine move. Only the rear truck dera... (more)

The hostler crew had a little trouble at BN's former GN engine facilities at Harrison St. in Minneapolis when SDP40 appeared to split a switch during an engine move. Only the rear truck derailed.

Big derailment in Norris Yard.

Big derailment in Norris Yard.

Sir, you can’t park there! Union Pacific YBE51X heads back from Loves Park on the UP KD line with scrap cars from Cimco to take back to Belvedere. They have came to a halt due to a broken down c... (more)

One of Canadian Pacific's large SD70ACU class of SD9043MAC rebuilds leads a train past typical North Portland.