On a cold and dreary night, crossties with rails freshly pulled sit spread apart on the ROW of the former N&W Mate Creek Branch constructed off the Pocahontas District mainline to access coal mine... (more)

Pickens Railroad Baldwin VO-660 sits right at the intersection of four roads in Pickens, SC with two box cars from the original railroad. This was shortly before the railroad was abandoned and tak... (more)

A forlorn looking GP7 sits on the storage tracks at Flinton on the UP Chester Sub, near Modoc, Illinois. I looked up the word Forlorn and its definition is "pitifully sad and abandoned or lo... (more)

WM 303 rusts away in the sun while weeds and flowers slowly grow around this classic from railroadings' past.

The former B&O mainline to St. Louis, MO, now the Illinois Subdivision of the CSX Louisville Division, ends at milepost 327.9 severing rail service between Caseyville, IL and Flora, IL.

"CTrail at Quarry Junction" Southbound CTrail train 4463 prepares to duck under the Meriden Waterbury & Connecticut River Railroad trestle at "Quarry Junction" just before entering downtow... (more)

Three years after the last train rolled here, nature is beginning to take over the abandoned Central Massachusetts Branch of the Boston & Maine in Waltham, MA. The line was railbanked by the MBTA ... (more)

Built in 1961, dismantled in 2019. Bridge no. 9482 was built to carry millions of tons of natural iron ore from mine pits near Eveleth, MN and included Fayal 1, 2 and 3, Cloquet Annex, Pearsall, ... (more)

There might not be any photo lines or a Big Boy 4-8-8-4 barreling down this right-of-way along Union Pacific's Overland Route, but this obscure rail line in one of West Virginia'a most remote sect... (more)

The east switch of Salida siding is no longer visible through the brush as trees and bushes encroach on the Tennessee Pass main line in Colorado that Union Pacific has rail banked for over twenty ... (more)

The 10,221-foot-high summit of the former Rio Grande main line over Tennessee Pass sits quiet and rusty today, with heavy trains no longer grinding through the lofty 2,550-foot tunnel beneath the ... (more)

The CNJ took ownership of the Southern Division line in 1879. At its peak the line ran from Red Bank NJ all the way down to Bay Side on the Delaware Bay. The line was used for both freight and pas... (more)

Once a railroad town…
Salida was once a railroad town, where Rio Grande had a large dual gauge yard, two roundhouses, company hospital and many other functions necessary for a busy div... (more)

Today, Colorado’s Minturn yard sits empty, rusty and forlorn. No longer do crews cut in helpers for the arduous climb up the steep 3 percent grades of Tennessee Pass. The sand tower is now gone ... (more)

No trains have passed this way recently!
In early March 2014, a 30-foot boulder came crashing down the mountainside above Minturn, Colorado, just west of milepost 301 on this famous Rio... (more)