The PRR scrap pile with tenders and tires the way it looked at the PRR backshops.

NS 5531 is going to scrap. It hit a fuel tanker truck back in June 2004.

NS 5531 is going to scrap. It hit a fuel tanker truck back in June 2004.

Having reached the end of their useful lives, two ARR 60 ft plug door boxcars have been shoved to the end of the track and lifted of their trucks. The cars were built by PC&F in 1965 and are amon... (more)

One of three that won't make it thru the day, this old F is being dismembered for parts and scrap. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

In among the scrap piles this old GN gon awaits it's fate at the scrapyard.

Buried deep among the scrap piles in this scrapyard is this old Armour Refrigerator Line Reefer, which now appears to be a wall for a big pile of scrap. Azcon, formerly Hyman-Michaels has been the... (more)

MMA has started the demolition of Amtrak units that were in the Poland Project.

The remnants of MEC 375 on the ground after the wreck at the diamond (UP - NS) in Momence, Illinois on November 24th, 2005. This was a trailing unit on the NS eastbound that was drilled by a UP so... (more)

Michigan Limestone & Chemical Alco HH660 102 and two of it's sisters were long time residents of the scrap yard next to the D&M yard in Alpena.

A rail-bound manganese frog that has seen much better days, sits in the scrap bin awaiting recycling.

The hulks of a UP SD60M and a GP60 wait at Pacific Rail Dismantlers in the old Colton Yard to be cut up. These units were wrecked in the San Timoteo Canyon Runaway of August 26, 2006. The train wa... (more)

The Death of a Boxcar! This car and the tanker in the background, were involved in the 10/17/2007 derailment at Steilacoom. Photo of the pile up - Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: n/a
Location: Tacoma, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: n/a
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: November 19, 2007

Recently wrecked and retired SD40us 6002 and 6004 await the torch at Edmonton's Walker Shops.

A pile of parts from some torn up hoppers on the CSX Big Coal Subdivision at Dartmont, West Virginia.