After having some break piping issues south of Atlanta, the F's return northward behind a straight SD60 on a hot, muggy fall afternoon.

An SD40-2 leads a mixed freight down the Columbus Subdivision, passing through the old C&O signal bridge at Cabin SA in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. A shiny cantilever with sideways turned heads was stan... (more)

Fifteen or so minutes elapse during this exposure as clouds pass by in front of the moon and the Southern Railway signals at Bessemer City change from approach to clear to guide a southbound down ... (more)

The Clinchfield signals at Elkhorn City shine their colors into the night as the Milky Way twinkles dimly overhead.

A northbound manifest knocks down the CRR signals at NE Toe River has it heads north through the Blue Ridge Mountains, following the North Toe River through the Appalachian gorges of Western North... (more)

The N-2 style dwarf signal at NE Toe River, dating back to the days of the Clinchfield Railroad, shines down the former CRR mainline as a nearly full moon illuminates the Blue Ridge Mountains.

A beam of light exits the Altapass Tunnel, backlighting the classic Clinchfield signal, as an empty coal train heads southward, screaming through tight confines as it negotiates the Black Mountain... (more)

Dating back to the Conrail days, the unique dwarf signal at Swanton is seen lit late on an August night less than a month before it was taken out of service.

The setting sun glints off of an eastbound stack train and Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief as they meet at the intermediate signal bridge just west of Fort Madison in Iowa farm country. With th... (more)

An empty coal train crests the Blue Ridge Grade at Villamont, Virginia with seven locomotives pulling the train through rural Appalachia. Villamont was perhaps the most popular location along the ... (more)

Norfolk & Western 611 briefly interrupts the flow of life in Reidsville, NC as it pulls a ferry move northward toward Roanoke, going through the crossover called as Edna. Two Southern Railway cant... (more)

The first light of day appears on the eastern horizon as the Amtrak Lakeshore flies past the NYC bracket intermediates at Swanton. August 21, 2017 was eclipse day across America, but it was also s... (more)

One of many eastbound freight trains on Norfolk Southern's busy Chicago line over the course of the night splits the now gone 309 intermediates from the days of the NYC.

Dark, derelict, abandoned. Waiting for a train that will never come.

Taken just before three O'clock in the afternoon, the darkness from the August 21'st solar eclipse begins to recede and the day returns to normal on the silent Saluda Grade in Western North Carol... (more)