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)

On October 24, 1992, the Soo Line’s abandoned, former Milwaukee Road yard at Savanna, Illinois, is still populated by a large assortment of Soo and Milwaukee cars awaiting a date with the cuttin... (more)

The last two Talgo 6 series trainsets set off on their final trip along the Pacific Coast, seen here gliding over the Stenner Creek trestle within the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus. Their final ... (more)

After a meet with AMTK 14 at Serrano Siding where the crew change took place, the Talgo Funeral trains continues south. The two sets are headed for scrap in LA. WSDOT retired all of the Series 6 t... (more)

The Amtrak funeral train of retired Talgo equipment passes the driving range at Eastmoreland Golf Course in Southeast Portland, Oregon. The cars are destined for Southern California.

Rails to Trails - coming soon!
Southampton, 7.5 miles ↑

An old Reading Company signal mast stands guard protecting the ROW Reading Company's Newtown Branch.

Class 45 Sulzer No 45030 and English-Electric 40042 are being scrapped at Derby loco works in 1981. Looks like someone has bought the panel with the loco number on from 40042.

It isn't very often you see Santa Fe hoppers up on stilts. These hopper cars are located at the Triple Nickel Inc.- West Plant along Railroad Avenue in Muleshoe, Texas.

Clean up is under way to get these locomotives back on the rails after an early morning derailment.

A very Old and Rare Unit This Is an Alco HH600 # 2302. At the time of the Photo It Belonged To American Grains of Plainview TX. This Is the Former Santa Fe 2302 Built in August 1937. It was one o... (more)

LV C628 641 appears to have gotten a head start on a Conrail patch job on August 31, 1975 at Coxton Yard, where it waits for a trip to the Sayre shops. Despite what appears to be a pretty serious... (more)

The train cemetery is just outside Uyuni, Bolivia, near the world's largest salt flat.

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)

Big Mess

Railroading has changed a lot since I took this photo of a massive coal train derailment on the shared BN/CN route through Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver.

Built ... (more)