On my way to work on November 18, 2009, the dispatcher calls to inform me I72 left a track indication between Attica and Marshfield. After obtaining Track Authority, I put my hyrail truck on the ... (more)

Over the history of railroading, many lines have been abandoned, but few have been forced to do so because of nuclear contamination...

Yaniv railyard in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone has... (more)

A close-up photo of a cold weather rail joint pull apart or a break caused by a frost heave or some other cause. Found on what remains of the DM&IR Woodbridge branch line located NE of Buhl, MN. ... (more)

Just west of Phoenicia is one of the worst remaining washouts on the Catskill Mountain Railroad, one which severs the line from its western end and will require major funding initiatives to repair... (more)

The Newest Addition to the PIR's Collection of Moribund Rolling Stock - [Vernal Equinox 2016 +1 Series] - Congratulations are in order on a job well done for the Pacific Imperial Railroad'... (more)

The midwest woke up to a windy April 2nd, with 50mph wind gusts across the Mississippi River valley. Western Illinois University's fence next to the former Rock Island mainline couldn't take the 5... (more)

The Monday after Super Bowl Sunday finds an odd sight along the tracks. With no crossings anywhere near here, a car managed to find its way onto the tracks from the parking lot above after being s... (more)

HOTBOX! One of the spoil wagon axle boxes has caught fire as another empty spoil train pushes out of the yard at Ping'An Coal Mine.

The scrapping of a classic. I had the privilege of taking the last cab photo from this streamliner that made thousands of trips up and down the Hudson between Albany and New York City in its heyd... (more)

After a side collision with another train; today it is already repaired .

In the early morning hours of October 30th, CN L501 departed Flint South Yard and headed west. While passing through the town of Durand, MI., 14 cars, non-consecutively, derailed, all of which wer... (more)

All that remains of the CNJ Broad Street Station. Opened in 1869, it provided a direct route from downtown Newark to the CNJ terminal in Jersey city. From there passengers could go from the train ... (more)

Between Central and Haldenegg tramway line Nr 7 crashed with another tramway. Here the men clean the road

An EBT train still sitting where it was parked when the railroad shut down in 1956. The track is the ramp that leads up to the coal bunker for filling the locomotive tenders. All along the EBT mai... (more)

A crumpled Penn Central boxcar is being transported without its trucks atop a flatcar, perhaps on its way to the Sam Rea Shops in Hollidaysburg. I think this might be a PC class X43F boxcar, rebu... (more)