On March 3, 2021 an eastbound manifest train derailed near Ludlow, putting 44 cars on the ground. It took a few days to get rail traffic restored but almost 2 months later there are the remains of... (more)

Almost model-like, a former Soo Line car spends its final days laying on its side in the dirt, waiting for the scrappers torch.

Soo Line train 220 heads east out of Savanna, Illinois, at 12:25 p.m. on October 24, 1992. The railroad’s abandoned, former Milwaukee Road yard at Savanna is still populated by a large assortmen... (more)

Locomotives await the cutting torch at the soon to be closed NRE Dixmoor Shop.

Retired and sold for scrap, NS 8717 spends its last days being picked over for parts before being cut up for scrap.

Various power sits in the deadlines of NRE in Silvis. A lot of what you see here will soon be scrapped due to the impending closure of this facility.

The deadlines at NRE keep shrinking as NRE continues to purge the equipment at the Silvis facility prior to its closure this year.

Former Metra EMD E8 521 (ex-CNW) is being scrapped by Lewis Brothers as NRE continues to purge the equipment at the Silvis facility prior to its closure this year. Former Metra E8 516 has been scr... (more)

A rebuilt SD60 highballs a work train south to Meridian, Miss. from Irondale, Ala. seen passing through Coaling, Ala. and some scrap metal that littered the right of way.

Rest In Pieces. The moon continues its ascent into the night sky above the 1924-built, ex-Southern Pacific station in Glendale, CA on a chilly night in Southern California. Calling on the 9... (more)

a Laurinburg & Southern carcass of undetermined number sits uout her final days before inevitable scrapping

Cheating the Executioner

By the time that this photo was taken in May, 1979, Conrail’s big Alco’s were making their last stand in Ohio ore service. They would soon be cut up, b... (more)

NREX C39-8 #7480, of obvious Conrail heritage, awaits its date with the scrapper. It's in good company with dozens of other locomotives at NRE's Facility in Silvis, IL. Built in 1986, #7480 surviv... (more)

Imagine the stories they could tell. Dozens of locomotives keep each other company at NRE's Silvis Facility. Leading the way is probably the most important of the pack. The veteran GP7u started li... (more)

A very interesting line of power await futures at NRE's facility in Silvis, IL. TPW 1601 was built as a CNW GP7 in 1951, before being rebuilt to GP7R standards. The Holcim 129 is an SW8 that was b... (more)