"Shoving to the Staging Area"

Long Island Rail Road Budd M3s #9814 and 9774 were shoved onto the Navy Lead to be prepared for scrap transport at Maspeth Yard in Queens, NY... (more)

"M3s to Maspeth"

On the night of April 14th, 2022, Long Island Rail Road Budd M3 #9847 leads a consist of six decommissioned M3 railcars past the old freight yard office at Maspeth ... (more)

After being sold to a shortline in rural Saskatchewan, CN 1440 sits dead and drained under clear skies. A couple of weeks later it was stripped down for parts/scrapped.

Still Awaiting the scrappers torch the NS 8758 has been here for a number of years now. Sort of a macabre scene for lovers of old locomotives. As uncomfortable as they can be to operate for the cr... (more)

Sitting, rusting away, in the middle of the woods. Vandalized like it doesn’t even matter, sad sight for sure.

Up 9438 and other's sit in there final resting place.

BNSF 9773 getting the scrappers torch at Birmingham Rail & Locomotive

BNSF 227 sits awaiting the scrappers torch at Birmingham Rail & Locomotive

It's entirely possible this had Progress reporting marks for the short trip from Rice Yard, but what used to be CSXT 7018 sits with other units for scrap and/or rebuild. In later years, all of Pr... (more)

Lift And Separate. On June 13, 2022, Frontier Metals crews were at the New York & New Jersey Railroad yard in Brooklyn, New York, to prepare Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA NYCT... (more)

HKGX #2005, an EMD SD38, has reached the end of its useful life on the stone train shuffle at Birdsboro Quarry. Its sister unit, #2002, has also reached the same fate. The units were salvaged so a... (more)

Still sitting on one of Taylor Yard’s turntable whisker tracks some two years after being retried following a wreck in Willowbrook (Compton CA) in mid-1983, Southern Pacific GP9E 3346 (ex-SP GP9... (more)

Part of WP's scrap yard at Stockton

Built in 1955, the New Haven’s ten class EP5 electrics were delivered in an eye-catching orange, black, and white paint scheme that immediately inspired Lionel and American toy replicas. When th... (more)

As the sun rises on a spring morning in Ottumwa, Iowa, BNSF's Des Moines to Galesburg manifest freight H DMOGAL heads east past the industrial east side of town behind a trio of GE's. In the backg... (more)