A beautiful Saturday morning in Louisville provides a southbound manifest zig-zagging it's way into Osbourne Yard. This location is visible from the Central Avenue Bridge next to U of L's Papa Jo... (more)

The shadows have grown long at Speers Ferry as a loaded SB coal train negotiates the curves on the former Clinchfield Railroad.

A five-unit westbound empty train rolls downgrade at Oreton on the former Southern trackage.

The Santa Train at the SE of Boody siding.

Lots going on here! As the Santa Train neared Speers Ferry, the crossing gates on the NS Appalachia District track that crosses under the CSX main were tripped by a NS backhoe doing work on the t... (more)

After the stop at St. Paul, the Santa Train will cruise for about 15 miles through the woods and tight curves on it's way to next stop at Dungannon. Here, the train is about to cross over the Nor... (more)

The 66th annual Santa Train, P90522, slowly crawls across CSX's Copper Creek Viaduct while Norfolk Southern's former Southern Railway trackage cuts and winds it's way through the hillside below.

Railfans flocked trackside for the Western Maryland Scenic Railway's steam weekend. Just as popular with some fans, though, was the pair of GP30 pushers working hard to help the train up the grad... (more)

734 rounds Helmsetter's Curve, spewing plumes of smoke into the air on one of WM Scenic's steam weekends.

Business doesn't stop on Saturday for the yard crew switching the Eastman plant in Kingsport. RailLink 1518 pulls and shoves a cut of cars late in the afternoon.

My first shot with my first digital SLR was an exciting one. I was treated to a 9 engine rack and intermodal train on the NS Pulaski District in Abingdon. To the right is the renovated passenger... (more)

As the DPU begins to be more and more common on NS trains that cross over CSX's Kingsport Sub, the chance for that one last shot in the evening light also becomes more common. What is not very co... (more)

As the northbound NS empty hopper train flys overhead via CSX's Kingsport Sub, a set of CSX pushers drifts downgrade westbound on the NS Appalachia District, having just shoved their train up the ... (more)

Once the pride of the CSXT fleet, CSXT 602, "The Spirit of Maryland" looks a little worse for the wear while still pulling it's weight in the coalfields.

A two and a half hour wait is rewarded with CSX's newest locomotive on the point of a southbound loaded coal train gliding across Copper Creek in the evening light. I think it was worth the minor... (more)