"Gentlemen, we're in for a long night."

Tom Golden photo.

A Detroit Edison SD40 leads a westbound on the GT main.

A set of 4 Hulcher side booms prepares to walk a derailed Detroit Edison Coal Car about 100' to good track. BN derailed a loaded coal train right under the highway bridge, with no damage to the br... (more)

This loaded Detroit Edison rotary dump coal hopper suffered some sort of problem before it was set out in aptly-named Hazard, Nebraska, on BNSF's Sand Hills Subdivision. It has buckled and sagged ... (more)

An empty Detroit Edison coal train runs south over the Mon Line.

Tom Bowers photo.

A sight not to often seen, here JLCX 010 ex-DEEX 010 has its cab ripped apart during its last hours of being a locomotive.

A Detroit Edison coal train waits for its next move at Russell.

In a downpour the work of scrapping this ex-DEEX U30C continues, now moving to trucks after removing the hood doors.

The weather sets the mood for the day as the skies get darker and darker, shortly after this photo it started to rain and continued through the rest of the day. Here scrappers discuss what the pla... (more)

A "dum-dum" coal train claws it's way up the grade and out of the Beaver River Valley on the CR Fort Wayne Line. The DE units were required on the point as there are mid train slaves, and the DE u... (more)

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This former Indiana Railroad SD10 works for DTE Railcar at the former Cornhusker Army Ammunitions Plant.

An empty Detroit Edison unit train rolls south on the Monongahela Railway. The rusted tipple is part of the idled Republic Steel mine operations in Fredericktown.