The rear view of the damage NS 8505

To give you a closer look at the damage on the what was the only operating D8.5-40CW from the front. It has officially been nine days since the collision that led to the derailment of NS 164-20 (B... (more)

As the engineer of the Piedmont & Northern job approached the crossing at the Waste Management of Greater Charlotte facility and saw a garbage truck enter the crossing ahead of the train, all he c... (more)

Work continues to get the derailment from a few days ago cleaned up and getting the junction back into service. A day or two ago after the crossing accident, Norfolk Southern along with the few ra... (more)

A cut of loaded grain cars being pulled by Canadian Pacific derailed on a ladder track at BNSF's Rices Point yard, spilling its golden NoDak cargo.

A hospital train brings re-railed cars back to Butler Yard after a derailment. I'm surprised they didn't remove all the boxes from the Conrail van before they moved it.

Just a minor derailment northeast of C&NW's Butler yard.

This is the section of track where the Oil cars from the Mosier incident on June 3rd "accordioned" and caught fire. The track sections were brought from Portland and The Dalles with UP ... (more)

Trains are rolling again following the Oil train derailment on June 3rd. Here we see an empty Canpotex potash train rolling slowly past the charred oilcans heading back to Canada from Rivergate in... (more)

This was the first plan to deal with an errant drawbar. It might not have worked out the way it was intended, but the strap held for about a mile or so. The goal of getting the car into the ne... (more)

Not your typical "coupler pan" shot. The trailing centerbeam flatcar dropped it's drawbar about a mile or so back. At about 3 mph they made it about half mile before the strap that was holding t... (more)

A burned out SD40 sits at the shop waiting for work.

Burn, Baby, Burn! BNSF 7903 blew its turbo during its eastbound trip on the Z LACCHI7 20L (high priority intermodal from Los Angeles, CA to Chicago, IL). Kingman Fire Department met up with... (more)

A westbound coal train led by Burlington Northern SD70MAC No. 9590 eases by a wreck site at Lakeside, Nebraska on May 19, 2006. The derailment happened two days earlier, when an eastbound BNSF coa... (more)

A game of 52-car pickup.

Date is approximate.