One of the earlier AEM-7DCs is first to be scrapped. It was dismantled into three chunks, which were hauled offsite by trailer to be further reduced. Amtrak ended up creating an official eBay acco... (more)

Cresson Steel NS 8717 is one of five former-NS C40-8s stored in Cresson, PA. Though they've been parked at a scrap metal facility for the better part of a decade, they're still standing.

A leased LTEX SW9 shuffles scrap gons at the Midwest Steel & Alloy scrapyard in Youngstown, Ohio located alongside the CSX New Castle Subdivision. The crew has just run these two cars over the rai... (more)

On a sunny morning in Chicago's south side, HZRX CF7 #1500 shoves a short train of scrap gons into one of the mills at South Shore Recycling. This unit was built as a Santa Fe F7A and has been wor... (more)

When I was ten, in the "Roanoke Times" newspaper, I saw a shot of N&W steamers lined up in rows with sparks of acetylene cutters coming up somewhere. Here, in a contaminated field by a ... (more)

UP Y549 (ex-C&NW 4404) is back on home rails as it switches the scrapyard in Racine, WI. in April of 2014. The S.C. Johnson Research Tower, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, looms in the background.... (more)

SPS 866 has been parked in the NW Industrial area with other historical pieces of equipment for over a decade. After BNSF land locked the units by cutting switching in the area and lack of space a... (more)

Dead locomotives waits out their last days in Chicago Heights with their fate already sealed by the cutting torch.

All that remains of KCS 7014 is the cab as it is reflected in a pool of water left from a clearing Winter storm. This is one of about 1,000 engines and cabs I saw while visiting the Larry Truck &... (more)

It's the end of the line for a trio of switchers that spent almost 75 years in Bethlehem, PA, mostly working the Bethlehem Steel plant. They were part of a large group of switchers that had been s... (more)

Scrapping 2023. Former CDOT FL-9 2023 (née-New Haven 2057) is the 3rd to last F unit built by EMD. The FL-9 order was a custom design for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad and... (more)

"End Of The Line" HKGX SD40-2 #3549 passes behind a hopper being cut up for scrap. H&K continually maintains and updates their fleet of rolling stock. In the foreground, a Caterpillar 3... (more)

Some ex Bn F7's and Wc Sd45's sit rusting away.

Some old SW9's painted up for the conrail still exist, All through they are now just rusting away.

Now at Larry's Truck the SP 2641 was Brand New and shiny in 1972. The now rusty and picked over SW 1500 sports LTEX reporting markings and the paint is nearly gone but the Southern Pacific Lineage... (more)