A pair of Southern Pacific Alco S4s await their turn with the scrapper's torch at Purdy Metals in Lake Point, Utah. A few months previous, both were employed at the Ogden switching yard, part of a... (more)

A look back at the six EMDs destroyed in a head-on crash north of Two Harbors on September 30, 2010 involving two ore trains on the former DM&IR. The crews had injuries but luckily survived. Five ... (more)

Amtrak's Train 4 Southwest Chief derailed on a curve at Lawrence, Kansas due to high speed on Oct. 2, 1979. SDP40F 504 was at AT&SF's Argentine, Kansas diesel shop awaiting disposition on Feb. 1... (more)

The Erie Mining Company was known for their F units hauling taconite pellets from their plant here in Hoyt Lakes to the dock at Taconite Harbor which was located on the shore of Lake Superior. Tod... (more)

On November 19, 1994, Green Bay and Western boxcars see the end of the line at a scrapyard in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

GP30 graveyard
On Christmas day in 1994, the contract scrappers working in Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac are nowhere to be found and surely home with their families, as are most of th... (more)

On a gray afternoon when we weren't even sure it was worth heading to the tracks, a buddy and I happened on this beast sitting behind the former Western Railway of Alabama shops. RSCo was rebuildi... (more)

In the shadow of CSX's Rice Yard in Waycross GA, sits this small repair facility with a couple SW1200's in the shop, and a plethora of locomotive parts and cabs.

The cutter's torch has struck The side panel of the cab of Canadian National MLW C-424 3221 is all that remains to identify it's heritage in a pile of scrap metal at CN's Reclamation Yard ... (more)

Pacifics #210 and #212, former passenger power, sit idle in the dead line waiting for the executioner. During this era, the Virginian was on a diesel-buying binge and by 1957 all steam operations... (more)

EMD's of all kinds have gathered at the LTEX shops in McDonald, Ohio. Some engines will get a new lease on life, while this is the final resting place for many others.

A string of EMD hulks sit at the east end of the Silvis shops, waiting further disposition.

In train on NLAS was this wrecked GP40, which was destined to nearby Alton, IL to be scrapped at Azcon. At the location of this picture, 863 had about 20 miles left to roll in its life, if you don... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-6 No 1629 was built by the Lima Locomotive Company in 1944, one of 25 Alleghenies in the third order of these locomotives. These H-8 Class single-expansion articulateds had... (more)