A nice duo of YN2 dash-8s take Richmond to Cincinnati manifest Q303 west through Thurmond on a beautiful summer evening. The depot, restored and run by the park's service, can be seen on the right... (more)

A pair of GEs take an empty oil train west not more than five minutes after eastbound loads passed on the closest track. Since the recent upsurge in oil traffic, the Pittsburgh Line sees anywhere ... (more)

Eastbound coal loads fly through the farm fields of Juniata County, PA on their way to Enola and points south.

A once thriving town on the banks of the New River in southern West Virginia, Thurmond, in its heyday, was known as 'The Heart of the New River Gorge'. While most of the original infrastructure in... (more)

A single dash-9 leads our first westbound train since we left Elkhart that morning. The train is seen crawling up to the signals guarding Porter Junction, waiting for communication from the dispat... (more)

Coal empties prepare to cross Warm Springs Road outside Shenandoah Junction on a wonderful March afternoon.

The westbounds have been backed up due to the dispatcher single tracking the railroad between Goshen and Dunlap. After the eastbounds cleared, our westbound parade began. Here we see 67X which we ... (more)

A pair of ES44ACs power westbound empty crude train 65R through the fields of eastern Indiana on its way to Chicago. The train will stop a short distance ahead behind three other westbounds awaiti... (more)

CSX stack train Q148, with a pair of BNSF GEs in charge, passes through Berea, OH and a tied down Q161 on the opposite track.

Still fresh SD70ACe 1115 leads stack train 233 into Bellevue Yard as manifest 146 creeps along beside on the opposite track.

The second of three tank trains on our evening jaunt across the NS Chicago Line in Indiana was an empty ethanol train from Philadelphia led by a BNSF GEVO. The train is seen on the approach to the... (more)

Making all of track speed, the first of three empty tanker trains heads west into the afternoon sun seen from an overpass in Kendallville, Indiana.

Bellevue was sure hopping this Sunday morning. Here, inbound manifest 146 passes through the interlocking just outside the yard with a CN dash-9 leading a C40-8M. In the distance, stack train 234 ... (more)

An early morning stop in Bellevue yielded a wonderful opportunity to photograph outbound Wheeling train #90. Here, the train has just entered Wheeling trackage from the connection in town and is h... (more)

More older power!! NS 8759, a C40-8, leads Ayer, MA bound stack train 22K east through Berea, OH seen from the Front Street bridge. Since 22K doesn't traverse former PRR trackage in PA, the train ... (more)