San Luis Rio Grande 456 and 457, which currently serve as power on the Piedmont and Northern Railroad, look sharp in their fresh Rio Grande speed lettering themed scheme as a beautiful sunset burn... (more)

The stored units and various types of freight cars in the yards at Roanoke provide leading lines into the Roanoke skyline, what little of one there is.

Though the fate of coal trains is unknown, it is safe to say change is bound to come. Coal train 819 passes the endangered N&W Color Position Light signals (CPL's) as it heads West along the Pulas... (more)

NS 9000 leads a trio of Dash-9's on point of NS 212 across the steamy Seneca River portion of Lake Hartwell.

The quaint town of Radford, Virginia provides a colorful backdrop for a pair of SD40-2's at the yard just along the edge of downtown. A set of N&W CPL's still stands tall in the background, but th... (more)

My vantage point atop our Ford Edge gave a nice view over the tightly meshed fence that lines the yard in Roanoke, and gave opportunity to shoot the Former Soo Line and later Indiana Railroad SD60... (more)

Just a few minutes before the taking of this photo, I was looking out upon the yards and beautiful mountains of Roanoke from a nice Vantage point for viewing both, and I couldn't help but notice t... (more)

A somewhat rare opportunity came to be in Webster as we chased in which we had no cars behind us. I immediately recognized this as perfect pacing conditions since we would not be hindering anyone ... (more)

Westbound empty coal drag NS 819 runs down the Pulaski District in Radford, Virginia, passing the soon to be no more steam era Norfolk & Western CPL signals at CP Plum Creek in the Virginian mount... (more)

An elder set of former Norfolk & Western CPL signals at Webster, Virginia show that nothing is lined to head east out of Roanoke on the Blue Ridge District amid this cool May night.

The massive deadlines of stored units in Roanoke sit on a cool, windy night before the 611 festivities began in the morning. The former BN and Soo Line units here are shown off nicely in the ambie... (more)

A slug set idles away in the fading evening light of an early May day as storms brew in the West.

Thunderous skies brew behind the Rose Acre Feed Mill in Bowersville, GA as Hartwell Railroad's 654, a former EJ&E SD38, rides the lead into the mill to grab some hoppers to be taken North on an ou... (more)

With an orange sky fading in the background, NS P90 crawls into the interlocking at CP Courtenay in Seneca, SC.

A burning sunset accompanies southbounds 169 (left) and 119 (right) as they swap crews in Greenville, SC.