An aging E60 in the yard of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Hopefully it'll be restored in the future.

Sold to the Illinois Railway Museum by the Virginia Museum of Transportation, the locomotive was towed to Altoona, PA for a cosmetic restoration, which never happened. This summer (2017) it made i... (more)

A road-weary GP30 stands in the Soo Line’s servicing area in Gladstone, Michigan. The EMD went to Wisconsin Central before being retired in 1994.

While driving on I-81 I'd noticed a white E unit for quite some time. One day when I had some time, I decided to wander around and see if I could get closer to find out what it was. To my surpri... (more)

Old prime movers show the rust and weather effects of sitting in the elements for many years, while one of the five Providence & Worchester B30-7ABs suffers the same in Waycross, Georgia.

Another stormy Rocky Mountain evening falls on this old K-37. It is one of several out of service K-37s throughout the state. #491 at the Colorado RR Museum in Golden is the only currently operati... (more)

K-37 #498 sits forlorn in the back of the Durango yard with no current plans for operation. It is one of several out of service K-37s throughout the state. #491 at the Colorado RR Museum in Golden... (more)

This 76 year-old survivor was spotted moving through the UP's North Yard on the back of a grain train. Built in April of 1941, DRGW 69035 was last serviced in 1969 and was utilized as a tool car ... (more)

15 old prime movers slowly rust in the early morning light in Waycross, Georgia. This is at the Locomotive Specialist / NRE facilities, which are located just north of the CSX Rice yard, next to ... (more)

The abandoned GG1s of Cooperstown Junction (Oneonta), New York sit rusting away, neglected for years. The LRHS owns the locomotives, which rest at the southern end of the Cooperstown and Charlotte... (more)

The abandoned GG1s (4917 pictured) of Cooperstown Junction, New York sit rusting away, neglected for years. The LRHS owns the locomotives, which rest at the southern end of the Cooperstown and Cha... (more)

A couple of well-travelled RSD12’s work out their last days feeding the coal dumpers at Norfolk & Western’s Lambert’s Point yard. N&W 251 and 252 began life as Nickel Plate Road 326 and 327,... (more)

Looking very neglected, hopefully to be restored sometime in the future, ex Ontario Northlands 4-6-0 #219 sits at the Northern Ontario Railway Museum in Capreol. The loco was earlier in it's life... (more)

Genset Fail, a toasty ending from 2015 for BNSF 3GS21B 1280 seen at North Yard in Saginaw, Texas.

Rusting in Place