The honoring first responders and veterans units find perfect light as they span the Boones Creek viaduct outside of Johnson City, Tennessee along the rails of the former Clinchfield.

Sometimes, when the stars align, the clouds do too. Southbound loaded coal drag N760-05 finds a pocket of sunlight as it rounds the curve at the south end of Starnes in beautiful southwest Virgi... (more)

The DPU on CSX Q542 shoves the train through the mountain at Sinks, Kentucky in beautiful Rockcastle County on the former L&N Atlanta to Cincinnati mainline. That paint scheme is certainly an unu... (more)

Briefly disrupting historic downtown West Greenville, NS P76 is seen crossing main street with a rare breed leading the local down the V-Line toward Piedmont.

Cutting through a lingering mist on a dreary December afternoon in rural Upstate South Carolina, Pickens Railway's Belton job navigates a well defined S-curve outside of Belton, nearing its next ... (more)

A bull grazes in a large field outside of Belton as the Pickens Railroad's Belton Job trots its way toward the Greenville & Western interchange with a single tanker in tow.

Loaded coal train No. 744 wraps around the sweeping curve at Glen Alpine, NC in the pouring rain with a duo of specially painted units in the lead.

Three specially painted units are visible as NS 744 navigates the Southern Loops in the mountains of North Carolina, hauling coal to plant Marshall in Sherills Ford, North Carolina.

The commemoratively painted Norfolk and Western heritage unit looks right at home leading southbound loaded coal train 746 down the former N&W "Pumpkin Vine", spanning a curved trestle north of R... (more)

The sun sets on Northwest Ohio as a rack train races south along the route of the former C&O, which, at the time of this photo, was still marked with C&O signal bridges and active codeline. They ... (more)

CSX Q693 passes through the last remaining C&O signal bridge now on a dreary evening in Eastern Kentucky.

A single U18B chugs up quite a hump along the haphazardly constructed former Southern Railway branch to Belton, SC.

A northbound lights up the classic Southern Railway cantilever at Concord, NC less than a month before its demise. The relays seem to be confused, a sign of this signal's age, as the lower head s... (more)

Navigating the curvy piece of railroad between Las Vegas and Chapelle, New Mexico, the Southwest Cheif splits a pair of semaphores that have guarded the former AT&SF Glorieta Subdivision for near... (more)

With the sun still below the horizon, a southbound hotshot intermodal cuts its way through the thick fog draped over upstate South Carolina as it makes its way toward Atlanta, crossing over the S... (more)