This former Seaboard unit awaits an uncertain fate in Fort Smith with it's exhaust stacks capped.

Railroad life can be dangerous!

On June 29th 2016, I was called to work on the YWTS60 assignment at Taschereau yard, in Montreal. CN 7266 with more than 55 years of ser... (more)

A string of BN and ATSF hoppers relegated to maintenance duty sit on the siding at Old Monroe amongst piles of old ties ready to be hauled away.

CSX 3374 secured to Kasgro KRL 300380 is ready for the trip to the heavy repair shop in Huntington, WV. This unit and CSX 3438 were involved in a washout derailment on 10/11/20 at Lilburn, GA.

Two Cabooses. The CPDR turbine run, with a trailing caboose for people to oversee the turbine, makes its way through the small town of Gray Court and past an old and faded caboose whose du... (more)

Pickens Railroad Baldwin VO-660 sits right at the intersection of four roads in Pickens, SC with two box cars from the original railroad. This was shortly before the railroad was abandoned and tak... (more)

Locomotive Graveyard. This was a wild scene not many get to witness. It reminded me of the part in Lion King where Simba and Nala wander off to the elephant grave yard. Carcasses of locom... (more)

TOAST! These former Amtrak AEM-7s were seen at the scrap yard, having been reduced into massive hunks of metal before being turned into razor blades.

On October 11th CSX train Q581 encountered torrential rain and washed out track at Lilburn, GA as the remnants of Hurricane Delta passed through the region. Both of the lead locomotives of the tra... (more)

NS SD60E 6997 is seen at Atlanta, Georgia after being placed back in it's vertical position. The motor had been involved in a unfortunate rear end collision within the previous week where it was r... (more)

Rare Rio Grande boxcar
On September 26, 2020, Denver & Rio Grande Western boxcar No. AX-60080 sits in the yard at Phippsburg, Colorado, located on Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande Cra... (more)

A pair of former Pennsy EMDs fell victim to a fire at the IHB's service track and are awaiting movement to the Juniata shops. Tom Golden photo.

A look at the NRE in Silvis, IL shows just a small percentage of the engines they have waiting for their demise. It's hard to imagine the thousands of crews who have spent hours upon hours inside ... (more)

Be Specific—ship “Union Pacific”
A lone horse pretty much ignores an eastbound Union Pacific stack train as it speeds through Pixley, Wyoming, on the railroad’s Pocatello Subdiv... (more)

One of the many locomotives at NRE Silvis is Metra E8A #521. The engine was originally built for the C&NW in 1951. After being used in commuter service for RTA and eventually Metra, the unit was s... (more)