Illinois Central steam locomotive No. 790 had spent 55 years in freight service and was headed for the scrap yard in 1959 when “railfan” Lou Keller bought it and brought it to Cedar Rapids from ...

One of the most lowly looking businessmen in the U. S. is the junkman with his knobby old horse and ramshackle wagon, collecting old rags, old bottles, bones and scrap iron. Yet when Junkman Bill ...

The builder of a roadside restaurant attraction in Ohio has claimed one of four steam engines abandoned in a Roanoke scrap yard. Terry Byrne intends to haul off his find today aboard a supersized ...

The last Louisiana-built steam engine left in the state has survived the scrap heap for a century, thanks to a dedicated band of volunteers and self-described "train nuts." But the old locomotive is ...

A scrap company that will recycle them for their metal could ... But that achievement is long in the past for the old locomotives now up for sale. Typically, transit agencies sell retired equipment by ...