216 empty hopper cars and four motors dash through the railroad town of Ashland, passing by the once busy freight depot at 15th Street enroute to Russell Yard for a crew change and fuel. Decades ... (more)

After waiting on the east leg while CSX MOW crews work on correcting an issue with the crossovers at KV Cabin, local J14 is on the move across the CSX mainline with a string of loaded hopper cars ... (more)

Life in the Capitol City

The westbound loaded Alcan train crawls through the capitol city of the bluegrass state, while traffic on either side of the train continues to roll through,... (more)

Mine run U01 is feet away from entering the control point at Marrowbone Junction passing an abandoned N&W boxcar as they finish their journey on the Lenore Branch. The rails the train are current... (more)

Another day on the L&N

Time freight Q539 has made it's first set off of cars at Patio Yard in Winchester and is now back on the move heading south towards Corbin, while local C706 ha... (more)

With cutter wheels grinding away at the head of the rails on #1 track, the Loram Railgrinder works it's way west towards Russell for a night run down the Cincinnati & Northern Subdivisions. In a ... (more)

Horizon unlevel..or train unlevel?

In the final mile of the journey from Big Run Landfill to the junction at NC Cabin on the ex-C&O Lexington Subdivision, the pusher of Y206-18 eases... (more)

Ending of an era

Local job Y206-18 passes by Gillum's Service & Repair at the former location of Meads Station south of Ashland, KY, with the pusher on the rear shoving hard to help ... (more)

CSXT 871 shoves a short train of empty trash containers over the crest of the nearly 1% grade at Summit on it's short trip from the landfill in Coalton to Russell Yard. After a short 2-year run, ... (more)

The pusher of the Lexington Branch trash train has crested the slight grade west of Ashland and is now ducking into the modified Ashland tunnel, less than a mile from the junction with the Kanawha... (more)

The ending of an era

Escaping the scrappers torch for a number of months, the quad-track bridge at NC Cabin still stands to this day, but their days are severely numbered, as the opp... (more)

CSX 480 leads a train of hoppers under the iconic dual cantilevers at Quinnimont deep in the humid New River Gorge. Since this shot was taken, these signals, the last of their kind on the C&O mai... (more)

Amtrak America...sort of

Amtrak's two Phase III heritage-schemed motors, P40DC #822 and P42DC #145 are on the point of the westbound Cardinal, slowing down for their station stop at ... (more)

Silent night

Performing their usual tri-weekly ritual, the westbound Cardinal rolls into the once-bustling railroad city of Ashland. Typically, a few passengers will disembark or cl... (more)

Take what you can get

Rumors had been circulating for months as Norfolk Southern has been looking to trim unused rail lines due to a fatally ill coal market. As such, the northern ... (more)