A view of the Amtrak and Metra yards outside of Chicago Union Station as viewed from Sears Tower.

CSX train Q38009 derailed in Painsville at around noon on October 10, and is shown here a little more than 24 hours later still with a healthy fire. Many rescue workers are shown in the area and ... (more)

Some GECX units, a BN green unit, a UP dash-8 all sit in the yard at General Electric. Looking further back into the yard you can see more GECX units along with a few green units which had Chinese... (more)

View of the Amtrak and Metra yards from atop the Sears Tower. Amtrak is on the left, Metra on the right. The bridge going over the tracks is Roosevelt Ave.

Midwest Steel and Alloy 1201 switches 3 scrap cars around in a junk yard as the sun burns off the morning fog. The engine was built in 1950 as IHB 8845. Check out all the employees and welders gri... (more)

Former BN and SP Geeps sit abandoned at the Port of Tillamook Bay, not going anywhere anytime soon as the mainline was destroyed by storms a few years ago.

Y190 had to stop on it's journey back to Clark Yard because a trucker parked his rig a bit too close to the tracks. The conductor had to get out and go find the trucker to move the truck. Shown he... (more)

Six Vale exports from Erie head east on 326 eventually making their way to Norfolk for export to Brazil. The road numbers in this consist are 2008, 2001, 2010, 2009, 2007, and 2006. The tracks on ... (more)

It is going to be a long night for RJ Corman crews. Q353 derailed on the afternoon of the 31st, and about an hour and a half afterwards, RJ Corman was already on the scene. 15 cars derailed, with... (more)

CSX Q114 drilled a semi truck that stalled on the grade crossing, thus causing a huge delay to traffic on CSX. The driver of the truck was lucky enough to hop out in time and survive with no inju... (more)

NS 9914 has a bit of wreck damage, and is shown sitting in the Juniata shops in Altoona, Pa

Old rusty wheels describe the fate of the Port of Tillamook Bay very well. With a good part of the mainline destroyed in a rainstorm a couple years ago, these old BN GP9's are stranded in Tillamo... (more)

At around 7 a.m. this morning NS 310 derailed 25 cars in North Yard. Here is L24 shown attaching to the rear of the 310 pulling the cars away that didn't derail.

A BC Rail dash-9 leads an K651 through a Lake Effect snow storm. This train outlawed a bit east of here and is being pulled into the yard by a crew whose job for the day was to pull in all the str... (more)