Mother nature is giving us quite a cocktail today delivering snow, freezing rain and then more snow as ice covered Enola-Montreal Canadian National #529 is heading north through the city. ... (more)

NS A81's power, with a high-hood leading and an ES44AC trailing, runs light through downtown Madison, AL past the site where the Madison Depot used to stand on the way back to the small yard in De... (more)

23D clears the west portal of Cook Springs tunnel with Norfolk Southerns Illinois Terminal heritage unit leading the way.

The spacer car local approaches it's major customer, PPG Industries west of Shelby. The spacer was needed to spread the load on the Buffalo Creek trestle near Blacksburg, SC. Just east of here, ... (more)

NS high hood 5115 leads D3V south past a old Wabash signal north of Bement.

Norfolk Southern's Virginian heritage unit, SD70ACe 1069 leads 173 into Atlanta, Georgia on a crisp December afternoon.

Frozen Deserts

As if it weren't cold enough already in the sub-zero wind chill, the Interstate Railroad 'Creamsicle' heritage unit #8105 added a chilly treat to the endless parade of... (more)

Catching the first rays of light, who would have bet during the 1970 Bankruptcy that twenty-five years later two railroads would stage a bitter fight over the remaining core system.

A NS mixed freight climbs the elevated line and heads south out of Cincinnati towards the Ohio River Bridge.

Locomotives:
NS 9604 C40-9W
NS 9284 C40-9W

A glimpse into the Conrail Shared Assets Port Reading Yard

Snow flurries start to fall as 8099, 4002, and a ET44 push 194 across coopers trestle.

NS 60M makes its way westbound through the trench aka "The Yellow Brick Road" this time of year

NS 188 approaches Williamson, WV heading out of Mingo tunnel just on the north west side of town.

Illinois Division local train D36 glides south along the former Wabash mainline towards Decatur, crossing over the Monticello Railway Museum's line in downtown Monticello. The Museum had just com... (more)

On a rainy Election Day 2016, Norfolk Southern's "Honoring Our Veterans" unit leads train 17K by the Amtrak depot in downtown Lafayette, Indiana, moving mixed freight from Bellevue, Ohio... (more)