Autumn in the Alleghenies. An eastbound stack train passes by some colorful foliage with a pumpkin in the consist.

As the sun sets, NS 275 with two NS GEs up front crosses over the Philadelphia & Reading Bridge in Harrisburg as it heads westbound on the NS Lurgan Branch.

Eastbound manifest freight 36A (Conway, PA to Edgemoor, DE) is seen passing under Route 53 between Cresson and Gallitzin on the NS Pittsburgh Line.

NS 4257 is seen leading Westbound intermodal train 257 (Bayview Yard - Baltimore, MD to Global 2 - Chicago, IL) Curve just outside Altoona amid peak foliage in the Alleghenies.

Fall colors are on display in Christiansburg as loaded coal train NS 778 rounds a curve and heads east toward Chrisman Mill road.

A rather neat lash up on the H-GALMEM rolls down the Hannibal Sub.

Norfolk Southern coal train U48 has just come to a stop on the Big Tom's Creek Branch after flood loading. The crew will tie the train down here and another crew will take the train further on it... (more)

A heavy 11Z descends past the former Norfolk and Western Signals at Pkin. The H Line still has multiple sets of CPL signals guarding the sidings along the line.

This might be my most interesting train consist. The units are an AC44C6M, C44-9W, NRE3GS21B, SD70MAC and a GP-20.

A brand new AC44C6M rebuild leads a Herzog ballast train north at Arcadia, VA along the Roanoke district.

NS's Greensboro to Selma manifest passes the Bailey Feed complex at their terminus, which receives much traffic from both NS and CSX.

NS 350 crosses the diamond with CSX on their way into Selma Yard, passing the classic joint station here.

A single AC44C6M leads NS 19W west through Vivian, WV.

An unusual grab bag of locomotives on the Hannibal Sub near Old Monroe, Missouri. The locomotives are an AC44C6M, C44-9W, NRE3GS21B, SD70MAC and a GP20.

The colors are beginning to turn in southwestern Virginia and it seems like this year is going to be a pretty year. Empty coal train 747 begins its long climb to Christiansburg past a fiery red m... (more)