Four Union Pacific GE's lead a loaded Herzog train upgrade at Emory on the original UP mainline east of Echo Canyon.

After bringing coal empties from Newport News to the coalfields of rural Elk Run, three locomotives run light by the St. Albans Depot, westbound on the C&O main. A BNSF visitor to these parts is a... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Cardinal No. 50 passes the C&O depot in St. Albans on its early morning run toward Washington D.C. from Chicago. The train will make stops at Charleston, Montgomery, Thur... (more)

Westbound crude oil empties led by two CSX ES44AC's slice through the interlocking at Coal Dock, westbound on the C&O mainline to Russell, Ky. The oil empties are enroute to the Bakken oil fields ... (more)

Deep in the mouth of Buffalo Creek in the core of the Logan county coalfields, CSX CW60AC No. 635 sits as the east most locomotive on an empty Pardee train at the end of the line. The recrew has j... (more)

Amtrak conductor Larry Bjornson unloads bags from the new baggage car of Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 in a damp and humid Huntington, W.Va. on the night of July 19, 2015.

Run-through BNSF power leads a westbound Slyster, W.Va. - Monroe, Mich. utility coal train west on the C&O mainline in Hurricane.

With a half moon illuminating partly cloudy skies, a westbound loaded coal train exits the Coal River Subdivision with an approach slow signal at "Indian", CLF 1.0 on the railroad's form... (more)

Basking in Kankakee's small industrial yard, a veteran Grand Trunk Western EMD GP9 sits couple up to an ex- Illinois Central keep along the former IC mainline south of Chicago.

Basking in the humid July sun where temperatures have already exceeded 80 degrees at 8:00 AM, a pair of Canadian National locomotives wait for their next assignment in the small industrial yard in... (more)

Springtime in West Virginia! A colorful pair of foreign road locomotives lead five RBBB stock cars north on NS' West Virginia Secondary near Belle, W.Va. on April 26, 2015.

Departing Norfolk Southern's small yard in Dickinson, about 25 miles south of Charleston, CSX ES44AC No. 948 and CITX SD70ACe No. 141 take five RBBB animal cars north to Charleston for loading in ... (more)

Coupling onto four RBBB stock cars, CITX EMD SD70ACe No. 141 slows to a stop on the south edge of Norfolk Southern's Dickinson Yard near Charleston. After a quick power runaround and brake test, t... (more)

A pair of colorful visitors to the West Virginia Secondary ease past a cut of loaded coal hoppers in the Dickinson Yard. The CSX/CITX duo will couple onto the Ringling Bros. Blue Unit train for it... (more)

A splash of color among a predominantly solid Norfolk Southern roster sits at the railroad's Linwood Yard engine facility on the morning of May 29th. A high five goes to the first person who provi... (more)