Linemen, Three Forks, MT. --- In the winter of 1980 The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) abandoned almost two thousand miles of track west of Miles City Montana.... (more)

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The luck of the Irish wasn't with us this afternoon. KAW Train 610, the Bedford Job, was pulling the hill into Liberty with 13 loads when they encountered this recently fallen tree on the line. ... (more)

Tough winter day on the Kyle—23
Plow MWK 06 drifted off the right-of-way quite a bit, taking EMD CEFX SD45T-2 No. 9282 with it, derailing trailing sister No. 9245 and leaving former S... (more)

Tough winter day on the Kyle—22
“Whoa,… whoa,… WHOA!,” rings out over the scanner as we pass the Kyle plow extra going through Kanorado, Kansas, on January 2, 2007. I look bac... (more)

Oops! BN GP9 1853 stubbed its toe at the Tacoma turntable, and several unhappy BN employees get the privilege of getting her back on track. I don't envy the guy underneath the coupler! 1853 began ... (more)

Another angle on Photo ID 411192. A SPAD (Signal Passed At Danger) infringement resulted in these two Type 10M5 Metrorail sets colliding at the entrance to the large Metrorail Yard just north of ... (more)

Amtrak P448 Is Running About A Hour And A Half late After Hitting A Tree Somewhere Up The Line, Did Some Damage To The Leader A Broken Ditch Light And A Huge Branch Stuck On The Front Of The Train... (more)

A moment of poor judgement in the yard at Montgomery means 713 is headed for some shop time.

Photographer- my Father- Guy Lisowski. Amtrak's Boston to Washington DC "Patriot" derailed at 2:40 PM while traveling 70 mph 10 minutes after leaving 30th Street station in the southwest Philad... (more)

On January 4th, 2000, Central Michigan 8801 was involved in a collision with a truck, leaving the locomotive extremely damaged. The locomotive was hauled back to Bay City where it was deemed beyon... (more)

I'm not sure exactly what caused this incident, but judging by the damage I would say there was some rough train handling involved. Huron & Eastern's daily northbound road freight 701 was almost t... (more)

Railroad officials and First Responders work the derailment scene.

This crew worked most of the morning to re-rail two hoppers that jumped the track at the wye on the east side of Johnstown. The cars were moving slowly so no damage, although that lean was enough... (more)

Oooooops... A little shake-up in the daily routine has occurred as the ND&W's former Santa Fe GP20 finds itself a little "off track." Not entirely sure what has happened here just yet, but it look... (more)