Not what I expected to see as I rolled through Kansas on the original routing of Route 66. Seems like an unusual spot to find an Erie Lackawanna locomotive.

E&LS 102 looks like a lab experiment gone bad as it sits in the dead line in Escanaba (Wells) in September of 1988.

A diamond sits in the woods on an abandoned portion of Conrail's Reformatory Branch. One track connected the CNJ (later Conrail) Reformatory Branch with the former PRR/PC (now NJ Transit) Coast Li... (more)

A Conrail MoW gondola sits on the remains of the old Lehigh & Hudson River main. The L&HR railroad was a bridge line running northeast-southwest across northwestern New Jersey. This was the L&HR m... (more)

A small wooden station is one of the few remaining buildings in the ghost town of Currie, Nevada.

The C&NW (UP) bridge over the Milwaukee River sits in the open position, waiting to close for train that will never come. Once double tracked it hosted many trains, including the famed "400&q... (more)

The remnants of S539 lay strewn about the middle of downtown Falmouth on the former L&N KY after derailing 10 hours earlier.

Seen here just west of Fredericks Hall Road Crossing, CSX 3181 west hit an empty logging truck around 16:00 today. All people involved are fine, and the driver went for the ride of a lifetime befo... (more)

The deformed, twisted, kinked rails of the Napoleon, Defiance & Western Railway wait for the next train, which will not be for a while, as the train visible on the horizon has derailed, a victim o... (more)

Some old abandoned rail from the Oliver Iron Mining Rouchleau Mine operations laying in the woods near the edge of the pit near Virginia, MN. The Rouchleau Mine is an abandoned open-pit mine and i... (more)

For Labor Day weekend, 1978, a college friend and I planned a three day trip to Buffalo, with the primary objective of seeing some of the remaining ex-Penn Central RSD5’s before they were retire... (more)

A hospital train brings re-railed cars back to Butler Yard after a derailment. I'm surprised they didn't remove all the boxes from the Conrail van before they moved it.

That's going to leave a mark! A Soo Line Colormark grain hopper has obviously been in a recent derailment and will present a challenge to repair. At least the insides are clean!

Now here's something you don't see every day - a loaded coal train passing four bruised and battered oil cans on their way to the scrapper.

Five stainless steel passenger car bodies, including two domes (covered), resided in a vacant lot near the west side of BNSF’s yard in Fremont, Nebraska, as seen on May 22, 2014. Since this time... (more)