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)

The high hood Southern Railway SD40 and 3 other EMDs are absolutely screaming as they fight to get their heavy local freight up the constant 1% grade at Park, three miles railroad north of Toccoa.... (more)

After an incredibly successful day on the Pocahontas Division, I didn't think the weekend could get much better until a message came saying that this unit was set to lead the Gainesville, GA-Green... (more)

Having just crested the Elkhorn Grade, helper set J59 is now along for the ride for a few miles as coal drag 746 drifts downgrade through Coopers and Bluestone, WV, home to the famed Coopers Trest... (more)

Nickel Plate Road-painted NS 8100 and standard ES44AC 8120 shove NS 746 through Keystone, WV. The Elkhorn Grade is really starting to bite hard, as the two SD70ACes on the head end and these two E... (more)

Pusher set J59 shoves Belews Creek, NC coal train 746 through Big Four Tunnel No. 1, between Huger and the Big Four Wal-Mart, where the east portal of this same tunnel is conveniently located.

Time freight 17M has taken a clear signal at Pando and is now hurrying westbound into a tunnel on the east side of Davy, WV. On the right side of the frame is the Tug Fork, which the Pocahontas Di... (more)

Westbound coal train U81 exits Tunnel No. 3 and crosses Highway 97 in Big Branch, WV on its way from Elmore to Gilbert. The Tidewater train will eventually continue to the Pocahontas District and ... (more)

NS Hill Run U85 soars 200 feet above Kegley, WV on the Black Lick Trestle, located at milepost 344.4 of the former Virginian Railway Princeton-Deepwater District. This line is being mothballed on ... (more)

On the last weekend of operations on the ex-Virginian Princeton-Deepwater District, a single hill run operated between Elmore and Princeton with two engines out front and 100 loads behind. Here, t... (more)

Southern Railway searchlights are on their last stand here at Delaplain, just north of Georgetown, KY on the 1st District of the CNO&TP. With the blue hour coming to an end, nightfall is eminent a... (more)

Nearing the end of their run from Maysville to Paris, KY, the one non-TTI painted engine in the consist of five B36-7s leads a 151-car empty train through the 22mph through truss bridge over the S... (more)