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 ...

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 ...

City Scrap & Salvage, a family owned scrap facility in Akron, Ohio, recently completed a retrofit of its shredder. The company, which was using a locomotive engine to power a 2,000 horsepower shredder ...