A trio of CP GP9's await the cutters torch and will soon be sliced, diced and loaded into the gons behind the engines.

The contrasting profiles of EMD and GE locomotion rust away in storage at South Yard in Salt Lake City.

A pair of former UP tunnel motors sit in Galesburg Yard. Rumor has it these are bound for scrapping.

C&K Scrap Metal is scrapping M&E RS11 7215 and C424 4216 at the railroad's Morristown yard. Components of the 7215 are awaiting movement to C&K's Newark processing facility.

C&K Scrap Metal is almost finished with the dismantling of former CP C424 4216 at the M&E's Morristown Yard. A truck is loaded with part of the long hood and the fuel tank, ready to head for the ... (more)

Of the ten Baldwin switchers retired on this May 29, 1965 at Santa Fe’s Argentine yard in Kansas City, some were traded in to EMD or GE for new power and some were scrapped after 20+ years of se... (more)

UP 3281 is a 40 year old SD40-2 which has spent its last seven years in the Denver Burnham Yard Dead Line. It appears that it is being slowly cannibalized or vandalized and it is unlikely that th... (more)

KCS deadline. Engines will be sold, scrapped or traded off.

Sadly enough, these few of the B36-7 fleet are meeting their demise after surviving the first round of scraping months ago.

UPY 1103 (SW1500) waits with other tired UP engines in the Dead Line at the Burnham Yard, hopeful that another chance at life happens via sale at a future auction. Many of the former SW1500 resid... (more)

NS 3813 awaits the same fate as the NS 1622 waits for. The scrappers torch.

The UP 7814 leads a Norfolk Southern stack train through the West Yard in Roanoke passing by many decommissioned locomotives with Shaffer's Crossing Locomotive Shop in the background.

Once mainstays of the Southwest and Northeast, these fallen flags now find themselves in the Volunteer state where they work out their remaining years still wearing paint schemes of the iconic rai... (more)

A sad lineup. Ex Canadian Pacific/CTCUM/AMT awaiting disposal. Photo taken with permission.

Finding buried treasure inside the West Colton Roundhouse. Built as EMD SD45 CNW 949; rebuilt to MK SD40M-2 SP 8706; now SD40-2 UP 2782 has been retired.