The daily CSX Hunts Point Market Local shoves east through the sidewalk of Sal's Scrap Metal just after splitting from the Northeast Corridor. This is one of 3 busy industries that the train must ... (more)

Watco's KCT 217 job is seen switching a scrap metal customer outside of Mill St Yard in Kansas City, KS.

Larry's Truck and Electric Service is full of historical railroad equipment. It is amazing to walk around through the scrapyard and just the sheer amount of old locomotives overwhelms you and leav... (more)

In a scene which depicts where older GE fans stand in today's modern railroading scene, LSI 3002 is reduced to a burning pile of rubbish at the Lake Superior & Ishpeming's shop in Eagle Mills, MI.... (more)

Born in 1956, destroyed in 2014. Parts and some unidentifiable pieces that once belonged to either Erie Mining F9(B) units 4223, 4224 or 4225 lay strewn about behind Erie Mining F9(A) 4210 as a co... (more)

The three fuel tanks are all that remains from the three Erie Mining Co. F9(B) units that have recently been deemed scrap and cut up by a contractor for razor blades etc..

One of the two remaining Erie Mining Co. F units still on the old Erie Mining Co. ( later LTV Steel and now Cliffs Erie ) property stares at the remains of her sister F9(B) units 4224, 4223, and 4... (more)

Surrounded by an assortment of scrap metal and an out-of-place school bus, Elk River Railroad EMD GP9 No. 4 and low nose EMD GP9 No. 5 sit in the small Gassaway industrial yard. This location is t... (more)

The 486 was in the process of being cut to pieces and dismantled for scrap when I took this. Despite the number board shattered, paint flaking, and rust showing through; this unit still looked go... (more)

UP 1867 Meets the torch on a fall day.

The classic scene at Thurmond that hundreds of thousands of tourists and railfans alike have photographed over the years is no more. Monday morning the power was cut as Cranemasters got ready and ... (more)

From moving freight through the Windy City to loading grain cars on the prairie in Hoffman, Minnesota, now it's almost the end for this former Belt Railway of Chicago GP10. The scrap pile awaits.

A Family Lines caboose brings up the rear of a "funeral train" full of former L&N and SCL first-generation diesels. These locomotives are headed west on the IHB and are most likely boun... (more)

What I did on my Summer vacation, redux: The number of locomotives occupying "Larry's Alley" now stretches back even more and under the overpass considerably. Still sad to see my buddie... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD45s 321, 315 and 323 reach the end of the line as they are scrapped at Livngston, MT in late May 2014.