As the derailment cleanup continues on Saturday, the second train rolls thru the work zone on Track 2 at 5:09pm. The first train thru was Q019 at 4:39pm. The derailment occurred on Thursday June 2... (more)

Crews have been working around the clock to clean up a wreck involving two trains on the CSX Tranportation Mohawk Subdvision that occured just before 08:00 hrs on June 27th. The actual cause is st... (more)

As one man surveys the damage, another man, this one with a hard hat, walks over to join him. The wreck occurred early in the morning when a rail turned over and put several UPS and other trailers... (more)

Fort Worth, we have a problem. Diesel fuel cascades from the walkway of BNSF 4019 as it departs Grass Lake, CA, following a stop to shut down the unit. Railroad: BNSF Railway
Locomotive: GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW)
Location: Grass Lake, California, USA
Locomotive #: BNSF 4019
Train ID: H-BARPAS1-20D
Photo Date: June 22, 2013

With Santa Fe 3338 laying on its side, a Santa Fe eastbound crawls through a slow order past the site of the derailment just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass. Heavy rains cause track damage in t... (more)

Why are unit train coal hopper cars painted a color on one end? The color itself has no significance. The end with a color denotes that end of the car has a rotary coupler, to enable the car t... (more)

In case of a line-blockage derailment, there was nothing like a ready-made shoofly around it!! Such was the lucky case when the rear cars of a northbound ATSF freight derailed adjacent to a lim... (more)

Aftermath after Amtrak Train 6, "California Zephyr" struck a rock slide in Fraser Canyon between Granby and Tabernash, Colo., and slid down into Fraser River, apparently before that section of tra... (more)

The result of not loading a car correctly. Or, it is the least efficient way to unload a pulpwood car. photo taken with permission

Parallel parked—not
A Soo Line train using trackage rights on the Milwaukee Road derailed at night on the trip into Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in April 1984. I don’t remember much of the... (more)

Santa Fe, UPS and a crane company team up to get damaged UPS trailers stuffed with packages off the ground after a 991 train derailed several loads. Reported cause was a rail that simply turned on... (more)

Westbound train 93 passes the wrecked remains of train 92 from the day before. Date is approximate.

Damage from accident with 18 wheeler at grade crossing located at Highway 1488 and FM 1774. 18 wheeler was high-centered on tracks. Accident happened on March, 4, 2013, and there were no injuries.

A crew from Hulcher has just competed setting the rear truck of this unit back on the rails after a minor derailment. The only visible damage was a slightly bent pilot.

We are standing on the access road just west of Randolph Tunnel near Doe Gully, WV. Back in an oppressively hot July, eastbound No. 376 encountered a sun kink just west of Randolph Tunnel. The h... (more)