Keeping pace with a rail grinder ahead of it, this Loram Cross Grinder stays back at a safe distance grinding crossings and switches. Here it takes the curve at Broughton before grinding the swit... (more)

The sun is setting fast on a cold day over the Lineville Subdivision. Catching the last rays of light, is N013 racing south with 115 loads of coal.

Time to lend a hand... Leaving its train on the mainline, engine 485 and partner engine head a few miles south of here to assist a train with locomotive problems.

Autoracks on train Q203 streak by on the mainline just outside of Roanoke's City limits. Hours have passed and CSXT #3005 continues to wait for a crew at Broughton.

Kicking up some sparks, the crew is working hard to finish a section of track before they've got to take the siding for two trains to pass.

One of the daily southbound Q-trains on the Lineville Subdivision, rolls through Broughton with a clean unit on the point. Operating as X647 today, this train has three engines leading 175 cars.

Taking the siding heading for the northend of Broughton, this GE will slowly bring its container train to a stop for a southbound to pass. The siding here is one of the busiest on the subdivision... (more)

Containers roll through Broughton on with just one locomotive on the point. This is becoming more common with DPU power in the consist of the train.

At the moment the mainline is hot with empty ballast train W089 making its way north through Broughton. Another northbound would be the next train through, but that would be over 2 hours later.

On a cold and clear morning, I025 rolls through Broughton on the heels of auto train Q203. Only around 10% of the 152 cars on this train had containers on them.

Loads of ballast fill the 60 Herzog cars that are in transport behind a couple of CSX engines at the southend of Broughton. The siding here is used quite often by both south and north bound train... (more)

Freight out of Rice Yard travels through Broughton behind a set of GE locomotives.

Containers occupy both the mainline and siding as one train waits for the other to clear. Headed straight for the lens of my Nikon camera, is CSX train Q142 and its leading GE. The mainline train... (more)

It's all clear for northbound intermodal train Q142. There has been clear signals through the Roanoke and Broughton area and also a beautiful clear day for the journey to the next crew change poi... (more)

CSXT SD50-3 #8540 leads Train X606-03 south as they pass through Broughton, AL.