Far from home rails and testimonial of a long gone railroad, a memory to the Ferrocarril Nacionales de Mexico, near the famous Tehachapi Loop.

A former Grainbelt covered hopper damaged in a derailment several years ago now serves as an overhead feed bin on a farm West of Ringwood, OK. A closer inspection of what seems to be an otherwis... (more)

Two Over the Side - It was a long hike over the mountain from Dos Cabezas, but it was worth the view on the other side. Here - Looking into the gorge from near the tracks, two wrecked box ... (more)

The ever resourceful Missabe Road. Take an ore car and repurpose it for other uses and it would be a neat addition to the HO scale layout.

What you're looking at here is the cab of former New Haven FA1 #0402, known today as the "World's Fair Cab". The locomotive was built by ALCO in 1947, and served on the New Haven until the early ... (more)

Low clouds hang over the valley at Red Pass, British Columbia, on July 14, 2013. A red 40-foot Canadian National boxcar that once carried goods across a vast country now sits in the grass used as ... (more)

Second Chance
After a lengthy life on the railroad hauling the usual commodities of sugar, flour and starch, this beauty of a covered hopper built by General American in the mid-60s n... (more)

Built in 8-1949, this ballast car was likely hauled over the pass in revenue service by massive Northern Pacific articulated locomotives. Designed for ballast service, this car also saw heavy u... (more)

Better Days..... I'd say this C30-7 has seen better days, cut up for scrap the cab is used as a "break room" for the workers of the Recycling center.

While traveling down highway 70/84 between Texico and Lubbock, Texas, I hoped to see some BNSF trains along the route. Never did I expect to see Santa Fe hoppers that at first glance appeared to b... (more)

The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad recently acquired this RS-11 engine that was a former member of the Louisville, New Albany & Corydon Railroad (LNAC) where is it was not in use for a decade... (more)

The picture prop cab of AC4400CW #767 from Unstoppable now rests in an old gas station (that was later a cafe for a while) near the movie train headquarters, the Fillmore & Western.

This is the famous pyramid at Vic Berry's scrap yard in Leicester, albeit not the largest its ever been. On the top row: 27023 and 25095. On the middle row: 27025, 25249 and 27208. On th... (more)

Cab end off B68 at a metal recyclers in North Geelong.

Facing an uncertain future following transportation by road from Avteq in Sunshine to South Dynon.