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)

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) line car No. 3332 sits in the yard at Mattapan, Massachusetts, on September 12, 2003. This “double-end” car was built by Pullman-Standard in 1... (more)

Two fairly rare Electro-Motive Division locomotives sit together at Western Rail Incorporated’s locomotive facility at Airway Heights west of Spokane, Washington, on September 19, 2015. The uniq... (more)

On April 22, 2017, a long line of stored Union Pacific locomotives sits on the old main line (now bypassed with a new alignment) between Pantano and Benson, Arizona, which includes the Empirita ho... (more)

Three Union Pacific EMD GP30Bs are stored at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in May of 1984. Only 40 of these unique locomotives were built, all for UP. Middle locomotive No. 731B is one of 13 units equippe... (more)

Former Canadian National GMD F9B No. 6622 still hangs onto whats left of its heritage at Alamosa, Colorado, on August 31, 2013. Built in January 1957 for passenger service on CN, The unit went to ... (more)

Burlington Northern F7A No. 732—a former Northern Pacific locomotive—is one of six BN F units stored at Denver’s stockyards for a time in the mid-1980s.