A westbound RCPE train is being tied down in the distance as the remnants of a recent derailment await further cleanup in the small town of Elkton, SD.

The Pride of Altoona PRR 4913, a WWII-era electric soaks up the August sun at the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum.

"Retired Subways Through the Newburgh Mill"

On the cloudy evening of August 7th, 2023, a single New York City Transit Budd R32 (NYCT 3829) and a few R123 CWR railcars pass t... (more)

Some of the forlorn equipment left on the Northwestern Pacific.

Only just an hour into the northbound Coast Starlight’s journey, disaster has struck. A large truck was fouling the single main around 11:15 AM Wednesday morning when Amtrak #14 came through at ... (more)

Santa Fe 3282 rests on its side, the victim of a derailment just north of highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Note the front coupler has been completely snapped off. Heavy rain storms caused track damage... (more)

The engineer on Santa Fe 5350 proceeds very slowly on the north track past the derailment site located just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rain storms caused track damage and ATSF 3338,... (more)

A Santa Fe westbound has stopped on the shoe-fly around the wreck site near Cajon Summit. Heavy rains washed out the double main line, leaving the tracks hanging in the air above the washout. Sant... (more)

One source says this unit was Illinois Terminal 1200 but the hood shows this is 1210. It was owned by N&W after IT. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.

Train wreck at Superior WV – photo by Howard Hutchison from my collection. The railroad calls this location Huger which is approximately three miles east of Welch WV on the N&W Pocahontas Divisi... (more)

Final ride... The cab and electrical cabinet from NS 9413 catches a final ride to a local scrap yard. The rest of the locomotive remains at NS's Juanita Locomotive shop undergoing a full rebuild.... (more)

It takes some dexterity and flexibility to install a new water pump inside Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6227 inside the locomotive shop South Morrill, Nebraska, on September 15, 2017. Due of the ... (more)

PITTSBURG KS May 1977 — Kansas City Southern NW2 4205 appears to be being used for parts. My photo.

Lancaster and Chester 705 was one piece of L&C rolling stock I had never got on digital before. It moved around every so often. but was usually out of view. Then in 2015 it was in the open on a li... (more)

Originally built for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1957 and rolled over in to Chessie System after the merger in 1973, GP9 #6525 sits and rots away in Athens in present day.