The DPUs of a loaded coal roll by on the main as an empty waits in in the siding.

A streamliner puts on quite smoke show as it rolls along on the rear of the Branson Sceinic Railway`s afternoon train. This beautiful F unit began it`s life in 1951 for the B&O as number 369. Late... (more)

Amtrak coming through the hills of Colorado.

The 611 rounds the S-Curves just north of Reidsville, NC heading southward to Greensboro.

I guess that hello wave is now....Good Bye!

My son gets off an Amtrak after his very first mainline train ride. (Stacey Whitman photo)

Three locomotives with three different paint schemes idle at the point of mixed freight in the Niangua siding.

The Southbound Carolinian at speed headed towards Cary Amtrak Station.

NS 351 heads westbound from Raleigh to Linwood.

NS E49 makes its daily journey eastbound for Chocowinity. This mixed manifest freight passes through the rolling hills of the inner coastal plain outside Princeton, NC.

A set of SD40-2R yard units make their way to the edge of Springfield Yard passed several coal trains.

The final Blue Unit Circus Train departs Raleigh headed southward towards Hamlet on the former Seaboard Coast Line. This train will turn east then head north on the former Atlantic Coast Line.

Ex-Cons on the Run

A trio of ex-Conrail SD60Is leads a empty PPLX unit train down the Nittany & Bald Eagle Railroad towards Tyrone. This stretch of railroad began life as the Bald Ea... (more)

A pair of GP60's head east passing under the former Michigan Central coaling tower in Michigan City on a cold winter morning.

Amtrak 75 runs through a snow storm on its way to Charlotte.