Strates over Starrucca

The 2014 edition of the Strates Carnival train is seen easing across the impressive Starrucca Viaduct with a matched set of SD60's for power. The leader ... (more)

A quartet of Blue Ridge Southern SD40-2s (in SD45 carbodies) leads a coal train west beside US highway 23, passing the Vulcan Materials quarry at Enka, North Carolina.

A southbound pipe train meets a northbound grain train, seen here stopped under the old coaling tower at Chaska. A helper was stationed here in the days of steam to assist trains over the Duff Mou... (more)

The sun is setting on another day, and a most unusual sight is seen here at Doswell. Apparently the locomotive at right ran out of fuel along it's journey within the last 48 hours, and was set out... (more)

Living on borrowed time.... With her days of service numbered, a Norfolk & Western J-Class Steam Locomotive is in the care of the night hostlers as a leased diesel-electric cab unit approac... (more)

Coupling onto four RBBB stock cars, CITX EMD SD70ACe No. 141 slows to a stop on the south edge of Norfolk Southern's Dickinson Yard near Charleston. After a quick power runaround and brake test, t... (more)

A splash of color among a predominantly solid Norfolk Southern roster sits at the railroad's Linwood Yard engine facility on the morning of May 29th. A high five goes to the first person who provi... (more)

37Q cruises across the calm waters of the Holston River behind Citirail power on this beautiful summer day.

Former N&W GP 9 514 BLT 12/58 looks like she is now spare parts. Horns, bell and number board gone.

I never did see them run this, too bad .

With Detroit Edison coal loads in tow, CSX N811 parades along the Big Sandy River, splitting a pair of oddball bracket mast signals housing C&O-style signals, westb... (more)

Recently acquired ex UP SD90MAC 7260 leads the NS 272 south on the Pumpkin Vine near the Watkins CP.

The Erie Lackawanna Railroad 3639, later Conrail 6670, sits with the other relics in Norfolk Southern's West Yard in Roanoke. The SPD45 is listed as being owned by the Virginia Museum of Transport... (more)

Having just come of the NS Clinch Valley Sub, this southbound coal train will ride the former Clinchfield CSX line southbound to Frisco where it will regain home rails.

A UP pool power AC4400 leads NS 163 hightailing it west out of Knoxville, passing through the small suburb of Concord. A small section of Concord Marina can be seen across Fort Loudon lake directl... (more)