The Wabtec Facility near Albia has been stocking up on Dash 9s that are being retired. I am guessing these will go toward more of the DC/AC rebuilds they have been cranking out to the Class 1 rail... (more)

MWRX 1200 at Bluffton, IN.

Locomotive #913 rests just behind a barbed wire gate off Rusholme Road. The front number plates are missing, but the number 913 still resides on the engine's sides. It appears to be the former A... (more)

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)

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)

On July 2, 1978, on the Santa Fe's Second District, Valley Division, (milepost 1184.4, between Gately and Rheem) vandals removed the lock off the east switch at Bethlehem Steel and lined the switc... (more)

Leftovers from the Iowa Pacific bankruptcy are supposedly being offered at scrap prices. As of 9/2024 this equipment was still sitting in Alamosa Co. Now re-lettered as SDCX 9163, CALA 9163 is ex... (more)

Illinois Central 8302 slowly rusts as it sits in the deadline in the Great Walton Railroad yard in Social Circle, Georgia.

Illinois Central 8302 has seen better days as it slowly rusts away and is gradually overtaken by trees and brush at the Great Walton Railroad in Social Circle, Georgia.

Commuter Cube. NJ Transit SW1500 no. 502 is seen laid up at Haines Yard in Pennsauken Township, NJ. The locomotive is the last of four such units rostered by the agency, and had been us... (more)

GN 1720 sits dead in Northtown Yard awaiting its fate. Built in 1959 for the Colorado and Southern, 1720 is by far the oldest unit in the deadline.

A pair of former Soo Line GP9's bask under the winter sun in the same spot they've been for several years at a grain elevator in downtown New Ulm, MN. They're up for sale, so their future is still... (more)

CSX 2215 and a colorful line of locomotives sit at the Locomotive Specialist facility, as snow from a rare winter storm that dumped 2-4 inches on Waycross, Georgia, which was a record, continues t... (more)

Originally ATSF. Photographer unknown. From my collection.