There was quite a line. They looked pretty good for goners. The acetylene heads cut the traction motor leads rather than disconnecting them reducing the RTO value. If only they'd had a good pri... (more)

The remains of 2 Amtrak F40s and a VIA unit sit in a junkyard near Ohio Central's Youngstown Yard. I just happened to be driving down 422 and glanced to the left and saw these at the top of a pile... (more)

The claw of death has arrived in Alpena. Thankfully though it's not here for the 975...yet. Photo taken with permission.

Yes, I was feeling physically sick. There were were carcasses of some really great old units all over the place.

A Nucor steel crane unloads a car load of scrap metal for reprocessing.

Midwest Steel and Alloy 1201 switches 3 scrap cars around in a junk yard as the sun burns off the morning fog. The engine was built in 1950 as IHB 8845. Check out all the employees and welders gri... (more)

Named unit Don Cook the DME 6077 and 3 others on Jul 9, hit a bolder and put some of them in the Mississippi river. Scrap now

Four F9s (an A-B-B-A set) are in the process of being scrapped near the location where they were destroyed in a run-away wreck that also resulted in 93 ore cars being cut-up. The wreck happended ... (more)

Spill your guts! LSRC 698 awaits the torch as some of her internal parts lay beside her.

CN 2584 was wrecked in a washout derailment near Rockyford, Alberta in 2007. It was purchashed and is bound for Ceeco in Tacoma, WA.

Less than 3 weeks after a major derailment at this sight, trains move through here at track speed of 50/60 MPH. The aftermath of the wreck is still piled up awaiting the scrappers torch.

An ignominious end to a long career. Another Lake State Alco goes to scrap.

The PRR scrap pile with tenders and tires the way it looked at the PRR backshops.

NS 5531 is going to scrap. It hit a fuel tanker truck back in June 2004.