With a trainload of boxcars for scrapping, a CSX work extra takes some rare rail mileage to Washington, Indiana where it will be the scrappers torch for these blue wafflesided cars.

The steady hand of an operator from Westside Shearing & Demolition rolls a tankcar on its side so scrapping can begin. A broken rail caused a 9 car wreck just south of this location on P&W's Norwi... (more)

A Milwaukee Road Box Car's Final Fate...box car #952 will experience the cutting torch and wind up exactly like the cubed steel sitting next to it as scrap. The Canadian Pacific Railroad sets out... (more)

17. Big green still holds on to memories of riding the rails behind him as he rusts away with the rest of the scrap that fills the field. Pretty good shape yet atleast and placed right next to the... (more)

RLK 1808 parked in front of scrap tank cars.

This rebar mill, formerly Newport Steel, recycles construction debris, automobiles, and shredded scrap to form renewed steel products.

Last remains of WC 3015 wait to be cut up for scrap at N. Fond du Lac. This unit was trailing 3009 on a freight coming into Green Bay when they had a head on collision with SW1500 1561 on a switch... (more)

Rest In Pieces. This locomotive and I have had an odd relationship. From the time I was old enough to drive by myself, I had been periodically visiting this engine at her former home in Nor... (more)

C&K Metal crews are almost finished with the scrapping of former Canadian Pacific C424 4240 at the M&E's Morristown shop. The cab and nose have been loaded onto a low-boy trailer former movement t... (more)

Two days after derailment, VIA 6400 sits on the ground without her wheels awaiting his transportation to Montreal...

Wish I'd had a wide-angle to capture the cranes of destruction too while Union Pacific DD35 #75B spent it's last hours on the planet at "Scraporano." Build at LaGrange in May of 1964, this unit wa... (more)

End of the line. 22 former Kellogg X-90 box cars come full circle being sent to scrap here in Battle Creek at HMS Scrap. A stones throw away from the cerial plant they once proudly served.

Crane Masters work on cuting down the classic C&O signals through St. Albans.

Sadly, all that is left of this old SD9 is the cab and ladders. Even had it not been scrapped, it wouldn't have been going anywhere as most of the Port of Tillamook Bay railway was destroyed by a ... (more)

Like a beached whale being picked apart by scavengers, one of Southern Pacific's three huge U50 diesels is dismantled at a scrapper at Pacific Terminals scrap yard in Long Beach, California. "Born... (more)