NS 3475 is the lone unit on local 93J exiting the yard at Kenova, WV waiting to head eastbound to pickup a train outside of town. CSX's former C&O Kanawha Sub runs below the bridge.

There's little known about Madison Cemetery in Shawsville, VA. With its most recent burial nearly 50 years ago, some may say that it's been forgotten. Railfans frequent the cemetery as it offers n... (more)

Coal loads from Shire Oaks, PA head south through the scenic Shenandoah River valley of Norfolk Southern's Roanoke District. The train is passing the iconic N&W position light signals south of the... (more)

BNSF empties and Union Pacific loads meet at the summit of Logan Hill on BNSF's Orin Sub on a stormy afternoon across the high plains.

Norfolk Southern road freight 12R passes the campus of Messiah College (now Messiah University) on a beautiful summer morning. Since my graduation in 2014, the campus has undergone some significan... (more)

UP 4014 greets the sunrise in North Platte, Nebraska. The locomotive would depart North Platte for Grand Island later in the day.

757 and 765 are tended to in the yard tracks on a cool early fall evening.

Northbound CSX empty grain train G749-27 knocks down the clear signal at CP South Deshler on a calm and peaceful summer night.

An eastbound BNSF Z train meets a westbound unit autorack train at the top of the grade of Edelstein Hill on the former ATSF Chillicothe Sub. The searchlight signals at this location still stand t... (more)

The J storms eastbound under the coaling tower at Vicker on its morning return trip to Roanoke from Walton.

Eastbound Wheeling & Lake Erie train 228 crosses the Huron River in Monroeville, OH on its way from Bellevue to Brewster. A Wheeling SD40-3 leads a pair of former DRGW 'Tunnel Motors'. In addition... (more)

After a three year hiatus, Union Pacific 4-8-4 #844 made a spirited comeback in 2016 pulling the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days Train between Denver, CO and Cheyenne, WY. Shortly after departing De... (more)

BNSF and NS GEs lead a loaded CSX crude oil train south across the trestle at the north end of Iona Island just after sunrise. Crude oil trains aren't as common as they used to be now as they were... (more)

NS 2680 leads an autorack train west, bound for interchange to the IHB at Blue Island, IL on a brilliant late summer evening. The CD 309 signals are the last surviving double bracket signals of th... (more)

Amidst a crowd of spectators awaiting the arrival of NKP 765, our first train of the day is westbound manifest 309 from Corning, NY heading for Elkhart, IN via Bellevue, OH. Traffic on this line h... (more)