Built in June 1988, NYSW 4006 was only 2 months old when it hit a dump truck filled with sand in late July 1988 while pulling a 1988 NRHS Convention excursion in New Jersey. I think the accident w... (more)

Almost done with the clean up from the derailment of 21T. Equipment and the last double stack car still have to be removed, then the Pittsburgh Line can open.

A powerful gust of wind derailed some cars on 21T, sending two containers into the river. The last car is being rerailed. Two sets of containers are being dragged to the west end of the bridge. A ... (more)

Rockville Bridge Derailment At around 4pm on December 27, 2010 Norfolk Southern's 21T, traveling from Harrisburg to Chicago, derailed on the Rockville Bridge as a result of 50 mph wi... (more)

Shortly before 6 a.m. on April 10th NECR's northbound train 323 hit a washout in Westminster VT along the Connecticut River. The lead unit made it over, and as you can see the trailing units weren... (more)

A broken axle was the cause of this derailment that sent a bunch of well cars and their containers to the ground in Hager City, Wisconsin. Clean up started soon after and went through the night to... (more)

One worker discusses on the radio the state 6015 is in while another prepares to pump diesel fuel out. The 6015 and 6063 derailed when the axle on CP 6063 broke.

Hot Rail
After a freak snow storm the day before, the bolts of a joint bar seen on the left have broken due to... (more)

The frames of either 755 or 760 lies in the yard of the BCR Workshops at Squamish in August 1985. Purchased new in 1980, both 755 and 760 were wrecked in June 1984 and were both retired the same y... (more)

A funny thing happened on the way to shoot a train on the former Mopac east of Pueblo, CO. I was just a few minutes behind this train that piled up 32 loaded hoppers bound for the power plant at S... (more)

The possible cause of the November 27th BNSF coal train derailment just east of Pueblo Colorado. the derailment occured around 8:00am and piled 31 cars into an almost two story high pile of coal a... (more)

A southbound BNSF coal train derailed around 8:00am November 27 2010 creating a large pile up. Shortly after leaving Pueblo Colorado the train jumped the tracks about 25 cars behind the locomotiv... (more)

DERAILMENT IN MIDVILLE: On November 21, 2010 at around 5:00pm EST, Norfolk Southern Train 192 (Macon, Georiga- Columbia, South Carolina freight) derailed 39 of its 90 car train, 14 of which wer... (more)

The loco that CN lent to the city to supply power during the ice storm crisis that lasted 6-7 days in January 98 being put back on the track.She had been moved about 500 ft from the crossing.

Southern Pacific GP35 7716 was built in February 1965. Later renumbered SP 6613, and then renumbered again to SP 6331, it was eventually sold to Northern Vermont as their 510, later becoming Cana... (more)