Pan Am's rarely seen wreck train returning to East Deerfield from a derailment in Etna, Maine.

Wreck Train - After cleaning up the derailment sight in Etna, Maine, the Pan Am Wreck Train heads back west towards East Deerfield, MA. This was shot at CPF-297 in Tewksbury, I didn’t have much ... (more)

A New Haven Railroad 230-ton capacity steam derrick working out of headquarters in New Haven attends to a minor derailment Maybrook Line freight OB-2 along an industrial canal at Shelton, CT. The ... (more)

The wreck train and its crew out of New Haven have just arrived at the site of a 29-car derailment at Shelton, CT, on the NH Maybrook Line and they're ready to go to work. The star of the show is ... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Waiting in the clear at Rollinsville for the westbound California Zephyr to pass, F7A’s 5741 and 5744 are headed back to Denver on January 30, 1966, with Rio Grande’s wreck train after two day... (more)

What a mess. An eastbound Utah Ry. empty coal train derailed in Utah's Price River Canyon while passing a westbound Union Pacific loaded coal train and loaded cars from the westbound derailed into... (more)

A wreck train led by a former CB&Q GP7 passes the former CB&Q depot at West Burlington.

A derailment at Division Street in Davenport has forced the Rock Island to bring out the Big Hook from Silvis (RI 95022) to clean up the mess. This is on the mainline to Kansas City, several bloc... (more)

Nevada Northern wreck train turns on the wye at Keystone to move train into the proper position to begin working a derailment nearby. Actually this photo was taken during the annual 2015 Winter P... (more)

The BN wrecker has been called out to help clear the mainline after a derailment at Hillsdale. This Kodachrome was processed in April 1977.

Trouble on the Adverse Branch. Nevada Northern's wreck train holds the siding at Lavon to allow the passage of a scheduled southbound passenger train, before continuing north to McGill. Wi... (more)

MILW 502 works with their wreck crane putting derailed cars back on the track at Auburn, WA while UP's Valley Local from Kent heads south towards Sumner. This is MILW-UP joint trackage, and UP wou... (more)

In a scene that was unfortunately all too familiar at the time, a PC GP9 shoves a wreck train off Rockville Bridge and into Enola Yard on Nov. 22, 1975.

In a sight that seemed all too familiar back then, a PC wreck derrick works to clear a derailment east of Tunnelhill, PA on July 18, 1975. The night before an eastbound Pennsylvania Power & Light... (more)