Farewell! Quite possibly the last cab photo ever taken of the 902, the rear third of the unit has been separated and sits at a slight upward angle directly on the ground as it is dismantled... (more)
Not me! The one Amtrak AEM-7 that has been preserved in full (at least so far) is prepped for departure to The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
Drop top? Looking more like a convertible, Amtrak 951 with roof panels removed provides daylight to the rarely seen machine room. Components have been harvested as the unit is dismantled ... (more)
MARC Meatball waiting for the next run. Photo taken with required PPE.
The 910, stripped of useful parts including horns, number boards, light fixtures and many internal components, this locomotive is now ready for the scrappers torch. Many parts from this unit were... (more)
Caked in dirt, its paint peeling, this AEM-7 has put in a lot of hours. Farewell.
Toasters and hippos in storage as far as the eye can see. It was a pretty impressive sight.
The 902 is chopped into three chunks to be loaded onto trucks for further dismantling off site. Units 950, 951, and 953 wait to meet their demise in the background. Now a year later, the farewel... (more)
Goodbye to you... With the upcoming final farewell to the AEM-7's, I dug out the most memorable photo I've ever taken of one, on a Strasburg Railroad charter. The shot wasn't entir... (more)
Not Down For The Count Yet Rumors of the demise of the AEM-7 at the beginning of this year caught some by surprise, especially the rate at which they began to fall to the blow torch. Luckily en... (more)
A quartet of toasters are on the pit. A sight you won't see again here.
The 937 is in for some TLC.
Two toasters await their next move, and apparently a lot of bugs met their match when they got in they way of the one's previous run.
The 909 trots over the Bush River as a jet skier heads in for the afternoon.
The 943 leads a double header into Wilmington.
