Looking through the crumbling ruins of a stone and concrete building in the ghost town of Siberia, California, is a view of Santa Fe SD40-2 No. 5134 leading an eastbound across the remote Mojave D... (more)

Old, Cold, and elegant. Some SP SD9Es await Christmas.

Southern Pacific SD40T-2 8503 was the lead engine on the Westbound APLAA when it didn't stop, ran out the West end of the siding and into the side of the Eastbound LADAT. Apparently the 8503 was ... (more)

Just recently the Schellville dead line lost a former Northcoast Railway, ex-SP GP9. Now three former SP SD9Es await the future with two former BLE F units on a sunny day before Christmas 2016.

Ugly! 718A heads a line of stored locos at Schellville, CA, in 1998.

Sixty years have passed since this empty narrow gauge hopper last moved. During that time, Mother Nature had begun its process of reclamation. Rails have sunk into the ground and many wheels of ad... (more)

A look deep inside the East Broad Top Graveyard at Mt. Union. The Kovalchick Salvage Corporation decided not to scrap the railroad and when they bought it in 1956. In 1961, it officially became a ... (more)

CR 6764 is former Reading Lines no. 5311, an Alco C630 locomotive in the deadline at Collinwood Yard, Cleveland, Ohio, in January 1981. Former Southern Ry. president Stanley Crane is now at the he... (more)

CHEYENNE WY Oct-Nov 1971 -- Challenger 3985 patiently awaits restoration. I had no idea at the time this locomotive would once again run under steam.

VENICE ILL Aug 3 1976 -- Union Electric Lines fireless cooker No. 2 is decorated on the front with a smiley face and the words Charley's Baby. Corrections and more information welcome.

4 years after it nailed an 18 wheeler at a crossing, UP 8232 sits awaiting it's destruction, most likely...

Hard to keep track of.... The Soo Line had some interesting track work in their yard that serviced the ferry in Manitowoc, WI. In fact it took me a second look to figure out what went where in thi... (more)

CNW 8042 has really dug up the gravel because of a derailment in June of 1992. The derailment occurred at the junction of CNW's Old Line and New Line in St. Francis, WI. That bent rail looks like ... (more)