Ex Manitoba Hydro GE 25T # 857 and ex CP caboose 434560 sit on display at the CP Station in Portage la Prairie.

D-L's deadline is always changing and always interesting. Leading the line is a GP8. Delivered new to the Delaware Lackawanna & Western as #959 as a GP7. Then Erie Lackawanna 1278. It made it to... (more)

URHS's historical railroad equipment sits idle at the Boonton restoration facility. This equipment is earmarked for the future New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center, a museum that was original... (more)

BNSF 6145 and five other SD9s await their uncertain future at BNSF's Interbay roundhouse area. They wear various shades of BN green, and former BN 6122 still wears a BN logo. Joining the group is ... (more)

The action take place in unrecognized republic of Abkhazia, a disputed territory on the eastern coast of the Black Sea and the south-western flank of the Caucasus. The status of Abkhazia is a cent... (more)

Genset Fail, a toasty ending from 2015 for BNSF 3GS21B 1280 seen at North Yard in Saginaw, Texas.

The depot at Heafford Junction was at the crossing of the Soo Line and Milwaukee Road in northern Wisconsin. Like so many depots of the era, the windows are already boarded up in this view from Ma... (more)

Lehigh Cement ex-API #5 [ALCo RS3] (servicable, but unused) Alsen, NY Locomotive believed to be ex-Birmingham Southern #151. Has since been adopted by a preservation group.

Straight GP40s were hard to find on CSX in 2004. This ex-SCL unit was having an identity crisis with it's old paint showing through and a battery door from a former B&O unit.

Bethlehem Engine Terminal hosted its share of six-axle Alco Centuries in the pre-Conrail era. Besides the Lehigh Valley’s fleet of C628’s, which were resident power, Reading C630’s were also... (more)

Left to rot until being scrapped on site in 2014.

Rusting in Place

CNW 846 has seen better days, along with neighboring cab Midsouth 7010. For years these cabs have sat on this locomotive body tucked in the back of NRE's yard, but in the past few days NRE decided... (more)

A scene at the marvellous Strasshof Railway Museum, near Vienna in Austria. This shows ÖBB steam locomotive 55.5708, built in 1887 at Wiener Neustadt as kkStB 73.79. It was renumbered to 55.5708,... (more)