[Plate 525] Slow Death in the Desert - [Summer Solstice 2015 +7 Series] - With the Tamarisk trees in the background, these three wooden Southern Pacific chair cars slowly sucumb to the elem... (more)

While a lot of great things are happening on the old NWP Redwood Route, not all of it is shiny and new. Seen here is the Schellville dead line. These locomotives have literally been left to rot, a... (more)

Dead Lined..... Squirreled away on a little-used, overgrown siding off the C&O Durbin Branch, sits a rather rusty piece of machinery that I never expected to see as I hiked along the Greenb... (more)

Former N&W GP 9 514 BLT 12/58 looks like she is now spare parts. Horns, bell and number board gone.

A dirty Illinois Central SD70 leads the daily Flat Rock to Chicago manifest north on CN's Holly Subdivision through the quiet town of Gaines. Gaines was once home to a passing siding; however, th... (more)

Rusting away. Southern Railroad of New Jersey, Ex- Washington Terminal Alco RS1 sits near Grant St. Rusting into the weeds.

Central Maine and Quebec B23-7s 2001 and 2003 parked in Farnham Yard.

An exxSouthern Railway, exWaccamaw Coast Line geep sits forlorn awaiting an uncertain future. The Carolina Southern is currently out of service by the FRA due to bridge and track conditions.

Two unlikely partners await their fate as a building (judging by the smokestack, the powerhouse) from the Reading shops is demolished in the background. They're there to supply parts for the Anthr... (more)

Sitting in the dead line. It will not be scrapped but turned into a slug for Conrail numbered 1102 classed as MT-6 rebuilt 8/78.

"A Less Fortunate Future..."

While the RRPX 563 had a successful first day back in service, the railroads other SSB1200 appears to need a lot of work before returning to servic... (more)

We get a 1/50sec pan shot of the lead motor on the head end of the massive CSX Q212-05 (Waycross,GA-Smyrna,TN) enter into the town of Bridgeport, AL (M.P. J-122.3 S.E. Bridgeport) on its way north... (more)

End of the line for the vintage fleet of Hampton & Branchville GP9s from Chessie System and N&W. They're seen during the early hours of June 8, 2015 in Monroe, Georgia at Powerrail Locomotive Serv... (more)

End of the line for the vintage fleet of Hampton & Branchville GP9s from N&W and Chessie System. They're seen during the early hours of June 8, 2015 in Monroe, Georgia at Powerrail Locomotive Serv... (more)