A head on wreck caused by one train overrunning the meet at Gilchrist. I heard on the radio that "2 westbound trains collided head on" (accuracy in the media!) so I highballed across the border (I... (more)
Brand new Interstate RS-3 number 34 has split a switch in the east end of the yard at Andover on January 7, 1954. It would appear the lead wheel on the trailing truck picked the point. The orange,... (more)
This derailment occurred during the infamous 1955 strike on the L&N Railroad. On Saturday, April 23, 1955, engines 306, 238, 117 and 301 (two FA2 Alco cab units spliced by two RS3 road switchers) ... (more)
Early on the morning of November 29, 1968, two freight trains collided head on just south of Hale Center, Texas, on the Plainview District. As a result, the 213L broke completely in half just behi... (more)
Westbound Kyle plow train hit flangeway ice in a crossing at Kanorado on the Kanas-Colorado border derailing the plow and two of the three locomotives. The locomotives were soon rerailed, but the ... (more)
One of the ore cars on No. 12 derailed at the north switch Canyon - I don't remember anymore if it was account a sharp flange picking the points or if account a broken frog. I do remember the Dept... (more)
This was the result of a broken rail - the chip cars were not very rugged and usually did not survive a derailment. For some reason the woodchips caught fire - likely from the torches used to cut... (more)
She's seen a better day. I have now doubts that the JLS masters have since made her look brand new
This is another unidentified oldie from my collection. The scene is almost certainly L&N’s eight-stall roundhouse (with 75-foot turntable) at Pensacola, FL. Such a calamity pictured here was act... (more)
A no truck crossing sign lays in the grass on S Battleground Avenue after a truck that got stuck on the Oak St. railroad crossing was hit Wednesday afternoon by a Norfolk Southern intermodal train... (more)
No. 12 was sabotaged by someone removing a rail on a curve just before a fill on a downgrade at Mile 4 during the night. The 2 Canadian Pacific hoists were leased at $10,000 per day per hoist and ... (more)
RJ Corman picks up Amtrak 128 and puts it with the other cars involved in this mornings truck collision/derailment.
RJ Corman lifts 128 after a run in (run over?) with a lowboy trailer.
A wrecked Cartier AC4400CW is on CN train M399.
A damaged QCM unit sits atop a QTTX, arriving off train M37721 20 from Montreal
