Head up of the zombie trains of Eureka. SP 2872 was part of the North Coast Railroads fleet that hauled timber from Eureka to the Northwestern Pacific interchange at Willits.

The main terminus of the Northwestern Pacific was the yard at Eureka where the railroad meets the sea. The railroad once hauled forest products until washouts along the Eel River canyon landlocked... (more)

Once part of a Tuscan fleet that pulled varnish on the Great Broad Way, this Penn Central E8 has now been stripped of many parts and languishes in Conrail’s Altoona dead line. As soon as its two... (more)

#1000! For my first thousandth uploaded, here's a personal favorite. Going back up to Portland from the Sacramento area, i decided to take the coast instead of the valley to see some of the landlo... (more)

Always looking for new angles. Recently restored to the schedule weekend only Amtrak 253 with P32AC-DM 707 passing the famous remains of a ship that ran aground near Fort Montgomery, NY as it appr... (more)

After a firey incident the night before, the UP 593 & chared UP 1407 sit just a few dozen yards away from the scene of the incident. The cause is still unknown, all that is known is the crew is fi... (more)

The roasted shell of the UP 1407 sits yards away from the scene of the initial fire. After a small derailment, a diesel fire ensued completely charing this former SSW unit. Thankfully no crew was ... (more)

Amtrak train A-920-1-05A creeps through Elk River after making multiple stops in inspect hot axles. On May 29, Amtrak 7 collided with a John Deere tractor/sprayer in Bainville, MT. The end resu... (more)

Wrecked Amtrak P42 9 brings up the rear of a deadhead move in Morton Grove. It is likely that this was the 9's last trip on the rails before being scrapped.

The power for CP transfer job G41 (CP Bensenville to UP Proviso) sits after a manned Canadian Pacific switching job crashed into them. Once crews removed the cars that piled onto the 1885, the dam... (more)

Ex conrail 8635 rests behind a facility she serves in northeast Philadelphia, where the locomotive has seen service for many years. the locomotive still regularly comes to life to service local fa... (more)

A trio of MILW coal hoppers derailed while pulling into the east end of the IHB's Blue Island Yard. Contractors with side booms are on site in front of the shuttered Stewart Avenue tower working ... (more)

Once a railroad town…
Salida was once a railroad town, where Rio Grande had a large dual gauge yard, two roundhouses, company hospital and many other functions necessary for a busy div... (more)

47096 and a sister loco await the cutter`s torch at Booths scrap-yard in 1998.

A quartet of former Reserve Mining SD9 locomotives sit in storage on the Escanaba & Lake Superior at Escanaba, MI in the company of a couple of baldwin roadswitchers. It does not appear they will ... (more)