An ES44DC leads empty ethanol train NS 65W west through Welch, WV.

NS 19M makes it's way up Christiansburg grade in some great late evening sun.

NS 7633 exits Welch Tunnel leading an eastbound coal train. The tunnel modification was done sometime between 2007 and 2010 for the Heartland Corridor Project to allow clearance for double stack ... (more)

Southbound at Shick. AVE. on a snowy day.

Southbound at SF , at the former crossing of the Reading Railroad and the PRR.

NS 213 rounds the curve into Fallis just south of Greenville, SC during a warm spring day.

Westbound, next stop: crew change in Bristol.

NS 7633 with 20E heading east on the Lehigh Line.

Westbound on the Pokey main with empties for the coalfields, NS ES40DC No. 7633 passes the NS Clinch Valley District Jct., still protected by N&W CPL's.

It was a nice day six years ago, if somewhat cold, so I trekked down muddy ruts to the ledge high above the lake to catch this southbound double stack train charging uphill at the beginning of the... (more)

No longer a controlled point (and no signals); the "Ashby" name has been moved to the south end of double track just north of Riverton Junction

Construction work for the new bridge and alignment for U.S. highway 340 as it also crosses Compton Creek

Bayview based shifter H14 with unit gypsum train 66R is south on NS's Sparrows Point Branch passing the remains of the former PRR yard at Edgemere, MD enroute to the PBR interchange at Sparrows Po... (more)

After letting eastbound traffic clear up, 15K accepts the signal indication to proceed west at the Cleveland Drawbridge.

A cold morning at Ft Loudon Lake, and after a cold night the hard frost has started to wear off. Also happening is the morning rush of trains arriving and departing Knoxville. A heron observes the... (more)