With 204 empties for Shelby, U903 passes under the C&O cantilever at EM Cabin.

A patch of flowers offers a burst of color on a grey day as Q230 pulls racks eastbound across the former B&O main between St. Louis and Cincinnati.

A snow packed Gevo leads Q693 through the Clinchfield signals at Avery after descending the loops in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Climbing out of the Ohio River floodplain towards the high outside of the oxbow in Henderson, KY.

A colorful lashup leads a short Q692 under the C&O cantilever at Fords Branch.

CSXT 8008 leads Q504-30 east past the old B&O signal and codeline. Gotta love the Indiana Sub!

It is a gorgeous late spring afternoon at Magnolia, WV - deep in the Potomac River valley - as the 5355 East exits Graham Tunnel and crosses the river prior to entering Stuart Tunnel. The more dir... (more)

Loads of coal for Eastman Chemical in Kingsport, TN exit the Earth at the south portal of Natural Tunnel near Duffield, Virginia shortly after daybreak on a muggy may morning. Someday I'll be loo... (more)

One of those rare cases where the planets all allign up for a magical shot. Check; two now rarely seen matched pair of consecutively numbered SD80MACs returning for an unusual run over their form... (more)

A lovely autumn day at Hansrote is embellished with the passage of westbound empty hoppers while this railroad still retained its classic B&O signal system.

On one of those idyllic early autumn days when the air is warm and refreshing, a distant groan begins to fill the atmosphere as a westbound works its way up the Potomac valley along the Magnolia C... (more)

You don't see many pictures from that remote piece of railroad nestled in the Potomac valley, now that the distinctive B&O style color position light signals have gone away. In their swansong year... (more)