Train 370 derailed @ Hiram Ga over the weekend , NS forces are clearing the scene.

Visiting a freight car scrapper brings to mind the mythical elephants’ graveyard, as one is surrounded by the massive carcasses of rail cars whose useful lives have ended. Morbidly slicing them... (more)

9467 was wrecked in Alabama in 2015

A graveyard of locomotives sit quietly as they rest awaiting their time of fate for the scraper.

Aluminum rough car body (body-shell) # 614 (end car) for one of the 19 7-car double-deck EMUs ordered for CalTrain in California. The 27-meter-long body, welded at Stadler Rheintal's Altenrhein pl... (more)

Two of North Shore’s GP38-2’s sit derailed in Bellefonte with a strong odor of diesel fuel in the air

Two former BNSF (ATSF livery) sit being parted out and eventually cut up

Almost model-like, a former Soo Line car spends its final days laying on its side in the dirt, waiting for the scrappers torch.

The scrapper does their thing, reducing these once mighty former Amtrak electrics into bits and pieces to be recycled.

Locomotive Graveyard. This was a wild scene not many get to witness. It reminded me of the part in Lion King where Simba and Nala wander off to the elephant grave yard. Carcasses of locom... (more)

TOAST! These former Amtrak AEM-7s were seen at the scrap yard, having been reduced into massive hunks of metal before being turned into razor blades.

Cycles of Life. When starting the SD70ACu program, Norfolk Southern purchased 100 ex-Union Paciifc SD9043MACs units in September 2014 from EMD/Progress Rail and 10 more from CEFX in June 2016. On... (more)

I liked the symmetry of track panels stacked at BNSF's yard in Duluth.

On a snowy day in Cresson, a couple of cabs from a pair of retired NS units, one tossed on an old school bus, sit at Cresson Steel. Taken from public property.

On a snowy day in Cresson, a couple of cabs from a pair of retired NS units sit at Cresson Steel. Taken from public property.