On a chilly and frosty November morning, special circumstances allowed me to find much-welcomed warmth in the cab of "The 01." Not long after this moment, the Saturday doubleheader began... (more)

With a fresh crew getting things ready to run this train's last district in the Linwood, NC to Chattanooga, TN trip, NS 348 basks in golden evening sunlight at Mecaslin Street in northern Atlanta.

After sitting for an hour, hotshot Rutherford, PA to Atlanta, GA intermodal train 203 has gotten a route into Inman Yard and is pulling to Birmont Junction, where the former Southern Piedmont Divi... (more)

On Veterans' Day 2015, CSX's Office Car Special runs south from Chattanooga to Atlanta on the Western & Atlantic Subdivision in beautiful afternoon light, a very welcome sight after 11 straight da... (more)

Descending the 2.2% grade on the Southern Loops in Old Fort, NC, NCTM and Amtrak's joint Autumn Leaf Excursion exits a tight rock cut on the upper portion of the Loops while returning to Spencer f... (more)

The Autumn Leaf Excursion exits Jarrett's Tunnel westbound on the Southern Loops, bound for Asheville, NC. The three P42s are getting a decent workout lugging their 27-car train up the 2.2% snakin... (more)

On Halloween 2015, Amtrak's Autumn Leaf Excursion chugs up the Southern Loops in Old Fort, NC on the westbound leg of the trip between Spencer and Asheville. Twenty-seven cars were on the train.

It's a chilly and cloudy fall day in southwestern Pennsylvania as the sound of screaming flanges, dynamic brakes, and a horn break the silence of the deathly quiet valley at Mance, PA on the east ... (more)

An eastbound coal drag thunders up the Sand Patch grade, ducking under the massive Western Maryland through-truss bridge, now home to the Great Allegheny Passage trail.

Amtrak's eastbound Capitol Limited crests the grade at Sand Patch on CSX's Keystone Subdivision on its scenic trip from Chicago, IL to Washington, D.C.

On a damp and mostly cloudy fall morning, CSX single-stack intermodal Q130 tops the Sand Patch grade in its namesake village. In just a few hundred yards, the two engines will back off into dynami... (more)

On the return trip from Jim Thorpe to Port Clinton, the fireman works the stoker (a.k.a. a coal scoop and foot pedal) to bring pressure up for the run up Hometown Hill, a long and hard climb which... (more)

Now drifting downgrade, R&N 425 has just met one of the day's Hometown High Bridge trains at Ametek, on the west side of Nesquehoning. The fall colors were ablaze in the Lehigh Valley on this day.

On a crystal-clear and incredibly colorful fall day, Reading & Northern Pacific 425 puts on a jaw-dropping show on her run from Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe for the October 11th Autumn Leaf Special.... (more)

After the cancellation of the very highly anticipated Atlanta-Toccoa round trips the weekend prior, Southern 4501 returns to Chattanooga under steam one last time on NS rails in 2015 in style--by ... (more)