The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's Cheat Mountain Salamander (left) meets the Cass Scenic Railroad's Bald Knob excursion at Spruce on Sept. 24, 2017.

In-between clouds, a pair of Kanawha River Railroad geeps bask in the evening sun in the railroad's Dickinson Yard near Charleston.

The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's Cheat Mountain Salamander heads home for Elkins after picking up passengers at Spruce, as seen along the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River near Cheat Bridge... (more)

A Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern duo bring coal loads across the Ohio River at Gallipolis into Ohio from Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Former Clinchfield FP7(A) No. 200 skirts along the Tygart River at sunset headed toward Belington from Elkins on former Baltimore & Ohio trackage. The locomotive, which is now dressed up as Wester... (more)

Freshly painted Clinchfield Railroad No. 800 leads the 75th running of the Santa Train southbound on home rails, spanning the Copper Creek viaduct. The locomotive was recently painted at CSX's Hun... (more)

A pair of 2-8-2s, including C&TS No. 488 and Rio Grande Southern-painted No. 455 tackle Cumbers Pass with a fall excursion train for Antonito, Colo.

An early fall in the West Virginia hills... Fall colors are ahead of schedule this season as the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad's Cheat Mountain Salamander climbs through the Appalachi... (more)

A salute to summer... Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 spans the New River at Hawks Nest on its way to Chicago from New York City on Labor Day Weekend. The train has nearly complet... (more)

A BNSF Railway container train for Barstow, Calif., climbs the grade at Siberia in the early morning sun.

Ascending Tehachapi Pass on its way to Barstow from Bakersfield, five BNSF locomotives pull a stack train across UP's Mojave Subdivision on the beautiful, and still usually green, Tehachapi Pass i... (more)

The very last Norfolk Southern-ran NS 380 rolls into Maben, W.Va., after a heavy rain. Within a few hours of giving up its track authority, this section of the former Virginian Princeton-Deepwater... (more)

Summer nights in St. Albans... A westbound CSX coal train rolls through downtown St. Albans, a popular railfan hangout, on its way to Russell, Ky., from Hinton, W.Va.

Built for the Burlington Northern in 1978, BNSF EMD SD40-2 No. 1664 shuffles a cut of freight cars in BNSF Railway's Winslow Yard on its former Santa Fe Transcon in Arizona. The train is framed by... (more)

Climbing out of the high desert of northern New Mexico, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief No. 4 climbs Raton Pass on its way to Trinidad, Colo., from Raton, N.M.