Towers, semaphores, and derricks were quite common in this 1970 scene where MoPac personnel are performing cleanup after a coal train derailment on the former C&EI. Tom Golden photo.
Around all the communication wires two AT&SF derricks carefully pick up a loaded Columbia Southern Chemical tank car with a PPG herald at Caldwell, Texas on Jan. 4, 1971. Note semaphores were st... (more)
Original Norfolk Southern derrick 900 and boom car 754 have been set up on the mainline for some "exercise" on the Seaboard today. The outfit will be interchanged shortly to SAL to pickup a minor... (more)
Interstate's steam-powered derrick W50 is in the process of rerailing a Lehigh Valley hopper near Pine Branch, VA in the mid-'50s. In these more innocent times, there is only one hard hat to be se... (more)
Old N&W steam derrick escapes the torch and awaits movement on the old Belt Line to the Virginia Museum of Transportation near the Belt Line crossing on the old Virginian Railway portion of NS.... (more)
At the fork in the ATSF mainline where one leads to Topeka and the other to Ottawa, two trains collided and sideswiped between Christmas and New Years Day 1967. Soap powder anyone... it really ... (more)
Former Virginian Railway Derrick B37, now NS 540037 still in service (built 1958), re-rails NS Dash 8 32B #3558 on the Coca-Cola Plant spur.
A wreck train heads east on the "original" NS behind Baldwin #1616.
A wreck train heads east (timetable north) on the "original" Norfolk Southern between Raleigh and Chocowinity with Engine 1616 and derrick #900. Southern Railway would take over the old NS in 1974... (more)
Norfolk Southern Derrick NS 540037, former Virginian Railway B37, in action at Park Street.
Derrick is in prcess of picking up locomotives
Former Southern Railway derrick on display at TVRM.