Santa Fe 3279 rests on it side as clouds begins to close in on the site of the derailment just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Earlier, heavy rains caused track damage in the area, requiring w... (more)

First Torrance Roadswitcher derailed their caboose while shoving the Kentile lead in an industrial part of Torrance

The German railway line from Basel Bad Bf to Singen leads 29 kilometers through the north territory of Switzerland, one Station is Schaffhausen. After a derailment of a German diesel engine, a cra... (more)

A set of 4 Hulcher side booms prepares to walk a derailed Detroit Edison Coal Car about 100' to good track. BN derailed a loaded coal train right under the highway bridge, with no damage to the br... (more)

Heavy overnight December summer rain resulted in the Amanzimtoti River coming down in flood and eroding into the supporting bank of the line down to the KwaZulu Natal South Coast at the mouth of t... (more)

With 3338 laying on its side, a Santa Fe eastbound crawls through a slow order past the site of the derailment just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rains cause track damage in the area, ... (more)

In case of a line-blockage derailment, there was nothing like a ready-made shoofly around it!! Such was the lucky case when the rear cars of a northbound ATSF freight derailed adjacent to a lim... (more)

Aftermath after Amtrak Train 6, "California Zephyr" struck a rock slide in Fraser Canyon between Granby and Tabernash, Colo., and slid down into Fraser River, apparently before that section of tra... (more)

The result of not loading a car correctly. Or, it is the least efficient way to unload a pulpwood car. photo taken with permission

Parallel parked—not
A Soo Line train using trackage rights on the Milwaukee Road derailed at night on the trip into Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in April 1984. I don’t remember much of the det... (more)