The pushers on a northbound coal train pass the old N&W offices in downtown Roanoke. Some 25 car lengths ahead of the pushers the train can be seen veering off to the north, heading up the Shenand... (more)

NS train detouring over the former Clinchfield.

A Coal train having just loaded at the mines enters the Orin Sub at Reno Wy.

NS 348 heads south at Starkey late in the afteroon.

NS 8304 and 6734 (both ex-CR) lead 931 past the D&H Coal Company in Cobleskill on a cold February morning. Both locomotives have eluded the paint booth so far into 2009, ten years after the CR spl... (more)

Downtown Roanoke. The yellow brick buildings are old N&W offices.

36 NS Locomotives stored in the Old Tie Yard..

Back in the early days of the CR widenoses, 2 barely new are in charge of the BUEL at the rip roaring speed of 20 mph, running on yellows all the way from Bryan to Kendallville.

Barely over a month old 9137 and 2 clones have just set up dynamics around the curve and on the approach to CP685 [West Rawlins], where he will cross over to track 3 and spot at the fuel pad for j... (more)

Man, you talk about last shooting light of the day, and Wyoming claims the prize. If I recall this correctly, it is close to 730PM and I was about to call it a day and go get my customary banana ... (more)

Back when they were new, I was stalking them on the old 'Central across northern Ohio. The old NYC main had a lot of similarities with the original UP main across Nebraska.

After the first order of Dash 8s were delivered, GE had still not fixed a pesky problem of imitating Alcos between notches 3-5.

Halstead (near Fayetteville, TX) coal train heading south to Denison, TX for crew change.