Rows of dead power sit awaiting their fate at the West Yard in Roanoke.

Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac 1002 sits on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. Hopefully this engine will one day be restored to its former glory.

Junk NRE units in storage in Crest Hill.

Amtrak KP-2025 arrives in Newark, DE at the Norfolk Southern Chrysler Yard with Legacy Acela TS-1. It’s joining TS-20 in a yard that hasn't seen much traffic since operations moved to Edgemoor.

This original Colorado & Southern 1959 built SD9 has sat in the deadline of Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 2010. Although today it is still deadlined sitting in the yard, it is on... (more)

With less than 16 years of service for the UP, a former DD35 is at the IHB's Blue Island Yard awaiting movement by Conrail east to Naporano Iron & Metal for final scrapping. Tom Golden photo.

Where Trains Go to Die Amtrak's Beech Grove Shops are home to countless retired and wrecked locomotives. Seen here are two veterans units (P42DC #42 and NPCU #90208), along with P42DCs, P4... (more)

Last Man Standing AMTK 940 is one of three remaining AEM-7s stored on the Seaview Railroad in Davisville, RI. 940 and 946 are rumored to be owned by the Newport and Narragansett Bay Railro... (more)

A wreck damaged Dash 9 awaits its turn for rebuild outside NS's Juniata Shop. Within a few weeks this engine will become the new NS 4959, a AC44C6M rebuild.

A pair of former CEFX units in storage.

An array of locomotives sit outside in the yard at the Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona, PA as the shop crew uses SW1001 2102 to move power towards the turntable.

ADMX SW8 8682 sits on the former Southern Railway SB Line in Kershaw, South Carolina. It broke down several years ago and the current owner of the line, the Lancaster and Chester Railroad, shoved ... (more)

A string of fresh HBRY SD60Ms await their fate in The Pas, MB. They haven't turned a revenue wheel since arriving.

Union Pacific locomotives stand idle in Grand Junction.

Whatever happened to? Somewhere in the process of morphing into baked bean cans, or whatever, this sad unit is serving as a parts supply for the Alcos actually on the roster.