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)

Around 10:00 A.M. on 11-7-10 at MP 41.9 on the BNSF St. Joseph Sub. BNSF X RICCNB7 03 (empty ethanol train) led by BNSF 793 rear ended BNSF X GATNEN9 03 (empty grain train) which was shoving out o... (more)

No. 12 derailed at Mile 4 account sabotage (someone removed a rail) but no one was hurt...the lead engine stayed upright. 2 CPR hoists and the ACR hoist are moving the 182 in preparation for re-ra... (more)

The imprudence of a truck driver caused the colision with this chemical, the second engine hit the third one (FXE3025) damaging the fuel tank causing a big fire before to fall down into the bridge... (more)

Everyone on RP seems to enjoy the ghoulish shots of derailments, so here's an April Fool's Day view of one from 1972. The photographer is the late Joe Morton, a Cincinnati Division engineer on L&N... (more)

Here is another view of the head on wreck at Gilchrist - see photo 401114 for more details.

A head on wreck caused by one train overrunning the meet at Gilchrist. I heard on the radio that "2 westbound trains collided head on" (accuracy in the media!) so I highballed across the border (I... (more)

Brand new Interstate RS-3 number 34 has split a switch in the east end of the yard at Andover on January 7, 1954. It would appear the lead wheel on the trailing truck picked the point. The orange,... (more)

This derailment occurred during the infamous 1955 strike on the L&N Railroad. On Saturday, April 23, 1955, engines 306, 238, 117 and 301 (two FA2 Alco cab units spliced by two RS3 road switchers) ... (more)

Westbound Kyle plow train hit flangeway ice in a crossing at Kanorado on the Kanas-Colorado border derailing the plow and two of the three locomotives. The locomotives were soon rerailed, but the ... (more)

The aftermath of the collision between Amtrak 29 and Marc P286 in 1996. The wreck claimed eleven lives.

Heavily damaged CN SD70M-2 8847 sits quietly in the backtrack at Lempriere, BC awaiting an uncertain fate. It was the lead engine of train Q11251 24 on April 25, 2012 when it hit a washout between... (more)

One of the ore cars on No. 12 derailed at the north switch Canyon - I don't remember anymore if it was account a sharp flange picking the points or if account a broken frog. I do remember the Dept... (more)

This was the result of a broken rail - the chip cars were not very rugged and usually did not survive a derailment. For some reason the woodchips caught fire - likely from the torches used to cut... (more)

This is another unidentified oldie from my collection. The scene is almost certainly L&N’s eight-stall roundhouse (with 75-foot turntable) at Pensacola, FL. Such a calamity pictured here was act... (more)