In March of 2000 the DM&IR suffered a major derailment of a loaded ore train at the base of Steelton Hill. The train was an all-rail move from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant to Geneva Steel in Utah. T... (more)

Standing tall and glaring down on this streamliner in its final hour, the scrapper looks like he's just slain a mighty beast as smoke rises from the wounds. The 486 was built in 1957 for the New ... (more)

Railroad officials and First Responders work the derailment scene.

Almost 4 months after the Metro North derailment at Spuyten Duyvil, the locomotive pushing the train that day, P32AC-DM #225 was finally released from investigation by the NTSB allowing Metro Nort... (more)

On April 4, WSOR's Horicon-Janesville-Chicago train derailed in Janesville as it was entering the yard to head south for Chicago. It put a loaded SOU sand hopper on its side. These are the clean u... (more)

On April 4, WSOR's Horicon-Janesville-Chicago train derailed in Janesville as it was entering the yard to head south for Chicago. It put a loaded SOU sand hopper on its side. These are the clean u... (more)

Rio Grande's Roper and Helper derricks were called to clean up a 13 car derailment at Gilluly on March 28, 1976. DRGW GP9s 5932 and 5922 assist derrick 027 at the west end of the derailment.

Rio Grande's Roper and Helper derricks were called to clean up a 13 car derailment at Gilluly on March 28, 1976. DRGW 027, a 150-ton steam derrick built by Bucyrus in 1923, works the west end of t... (more)

Rio Grande's Roper and Helper derricks were called to clean up a 13 car derailment at Gilluly on March 28, 1976. DRGW 026, a 150-ton steam derrick built by Bucyrus in 1923, works the east end of t... (more)

Rio Grande's Roper and Helper steam derricks were called to clean up a 13 car derailment at West Gilluly on March 28, 1976. GP9s 5922 and 5932 handled the Roper wrecker with crane 027 while GP40-2... (more)

The crew works late into the night to clear a derailment in the WSOR yard in Janesville out front of the roundhouse. The covered hopper is SOU 92397 and was loaded with sand.

One of the two Electro-Motive Division RS1325’s ever produced lies derailed in Pekin, Illinois on Friday, March 28, 2014. Illinois & Midland Railroad # 30, built in the fall of 1960 for Chicag... (more)

Sitting on the whisker tracks around the turntable in Southern Pacific's Taylor Yard in Los Angeles, California, is SD45 7425, displaying the results of a recent altercation. This locomotive, bui... (more)

Less their trucks, BNSF 9735 and TFM 1623 (another SD70MAC) have been loaded onto a pair of heavyweight flatcars. Following a wreck in Keithville, Louisiana (Dec. 2013), five locomotives (includ... (more)

CSXT 5421 was leading an eastbound intermodal train through Gary, Indiana when it collided with an empty hopper train being shoved by a CSS&SB crew which derailed into the path of the CSXT train. ... (more)