It may look like the Carolinas, but this is actually Alamosa, Colorado. Sitting in the San Luis & Rio Grande yard are Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad F9B 6622 (the WCLR is a shortline in both the Ca... (more)

On May 7, 2012, several veteran Montana Rail Link locomotives were stored inside one of the older shop buildings at the railroad’s main locomotive facility at Livingston, Montana, including MRL ... (more)

A string of long-stored Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC locomotives sit in a yard track near the Progress Rail Services facility south of Bill, Wyoming, on July 11, 2023.

Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC No. 3598, along with several other units, is stored behind the shop at UP’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015. Larger shield and w... (more)

The first EMD GP20s built were for Western Pacific, and they had a high short hood, as did Great Northern’s 36 units. February 25, 1985, WP GP20 No. 2006 is stored at Salt Lake City, Utah, after... (more)

A large group of older Union Pacific EMD and GE six-axle locomotives sit stored at the railroad’s Burnham Shops facility in Denver, Colorado, on December 21, 2015.

On October 18, 2018, a long string of BNSF EMD SD70MAC locomotives is in long-term storage alongside BNSF’s yard between Donkey Creek and Rozet, Wyoming, on the railroad’s Black Hills Subdivis... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD7 No. 6054 sits stored at the railroad’s locomotive facility in Clyde Yard at Cicero, Illinois, in November 1983. The locomotive was built in December 1952 as Chicago, ... (more)

Before Union Pacific, and probably Southern Pacific too, the wash rack at Burnham Shops cleaned countless Rio Grande locomotives and passenger cars over the years. the earliest buildings at the Bu... (more)

I was too young, and Rock Island was just out of reach, for me to have photographed the railroad in its last days. I sure wish I could have, but only saw bits and pieces of it as the years wore on... (more)

An outline of a missing logo on a weatherbeaten EMD E9A easily identifies it as a former Milwaukee Road locomotive as it lives out its final days on April 29, 1990. Yellow No. 38C was sitting on a... (more)

Five passenger car bodies await restoration next to San Luis & Rio Grande’s car shop in Alamosa, Colorado, on June 4, 2018. These are the same cars that sat in repose on a lot near the BNSF yard... (more)

On May 22, 2014, two strings of Union Pacific EMD SD9043MACs are stored in the yard at Missouri Valley, Iowa, waiting out an uncertain fate.

A large string of EMD BNSF SD70MAC locomotives is still stored alongside BNSF’s yard between Donkey Creek and Rozet, Wyoming, on October 18, 2018.

San Luis & Rio Grande EMD SD9043MAC No. 115 sits stored at Alamosa, Colorado, on June 4, 2018. Apparently many of SL&RG’s locomotives are unserviceable, as they currently have three Union Pacifi... (more)