To quote an engineer: "Ive heard of ripping a drawbar before, but never I have never heard of ripping the whole a*s off before!" 2703 was pulling up Stevens Pass when it started to surge then the... (more)

Not sure what happened to this one, but here it rests, awaiting for its new plow to be painted and installed. Probably needs some new trucks too.

Eastbound U883 passes what's left of a derailment that happen February 05, 2006. Cranemasters is cutting up the remaining cars for scrap metal. The rolls of wire that are behind the Conrail engine... (more)

Derailment early in the morning happened right under the highway bridge. I counted 14 autoracks that left the tracks. View of the cars as they backed up under the west side of the highway bridge.

CSX does it accordian style! Derailment early in the morning happened right under the highway bridge. I counted 14 autoracks that left the tracks. Had to stick my lens through the chainlink fence ... (more)

An insider photograph of the shocking aftermath of the tragic runaway of a overloaded SP potash train "01-MJLBP-11" after it lost it's brakes off Cajon Pass and careened off a curve at over 100mph... (more)

Aftermath of vandals putting ties on the tracks. That's the power off Q226 in the background pulling two rerailed cars west.

A pair of doomed GP60's from some apparent wreck are making their last trip over the railroad.

BNSF 4801's Final ride involved in a derailment in which it was the 4th loco in line with northbound csx 7672. No injuries reported in this derailment

Northbound Csx-7672 stacktrain derails after hitting a disabled tractor trailor hauling sheetrock on a crossing.locos LTEX 8532,CSX 8038,BNSF4801 were buried, several cars came off coming to rest ... (more)

MMA Searsport Local tangled with a truck which failed to stop at the US Rt. 202 crossing, causing the 8592 and a tank car to derail.

A derailment of 11 grain cars at Cajon Station at the rear of the train. This train had DPU's and the train apparently tried. Here supervisors discuss strategy of rerailing this engine.

A derailment of 11 grain cars at Cajon Station at the rear of the train. This train had DPU's and the train apparently tried "straight-lining" itself on the curve.

looks like they split the switch

Day 3 of the Derailment went slow. They turned the PAN AM boxcar then cut holes in the roof. Then set the paper contents on fire. A splash can also be seen where some of the paper went into the... (more)