Bracketed by the remaining ends of a Big Stone Power bethgon, a welder goes about torching pieces of these BSPX cars that were involved in a wreck back on February 1st. (See photo ID 423347 for wr... (more)
One of a handful of American locomotive cranes that populate the large Azcon scrap yard in Duluth shuffles a gondola around for loading.
Deconstruction of a U-Boat
Cresson, PA 2/23/2013 - Beheaded: Norfolk Southern SD-40 3200 has lost all but its cab as the scrappers turn this 1972-built EMD into piles of unrecognizable steel. Originally a Southern Railway S... (more)
Soo 2556 at Shoreham, it didn't take long to realize this geep had ran her last mile. Damaged along with 409 in a collision with a runaway cut of cars at Roseport, MN.
The end for Mongrel 1505 came when the roundhouse burned at Iron Mountain on June 12th, 1976. Here the unit is seen at Adams headed for scrap. Photo is in my collection with no photographer inform... (more)
Meeting the Torch... A scraping outfit from Ft. Scott, KS is underway in cutting up an OGEX bethgon that derailed at Santa Fe Jct. back in August.
A look back at the six EMDs destroyed in a head-on crash north of Two Harbors on September 30, 2010 involving two ore trains on the former DM&IR. The crews had injuries but luckily survived. Five ... (more)
On November 19, 1994, Green Bay and Western boxcars see the end of the line at a scrapyard in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
A T-Bird train pulls out of United Taconite and past several former Missabe ore cars that derailed a few days earlier on the same train. CN has decided to scrap them so they will soon be cut-up an... (more)
Good morning, America, how are you When exploring the Illinois Central in 1989-90, I couldn’t get the classic song by Steve Goodman, “City of New Orleans” from out of my mind. Dur... (more)
A pair for Soo geeps spot empty gons at Duluth's Azcon scrap yard on a pleasant evening.
A soon-to-be scrapped ex-Southern SD40 at Cresson.
Two of the several SD40's that are Cresson Iron & Metal sit awaiting their fate that will be coming to an end very shortly.
