Q358 at the famed Foley overlook

501 brings the photo charter back into town with an ominous sky looming above and the cumberland narrows behind.

New ACEs lead across the OC Bridge.

The thick fog still hangs around further up the mountain, but starts to clear here at Fairhope as Q394 races down the Sand Patch Grade with foreign power leading the way.

Q389 @ Manila

A spontaneous Magnolia Cutoff trip in the middle of the night turned to be quite a bad idea! As I started heading into the Alleghenies, visibility was horrendous. So I abandoned the cutoff and w... (more)

Fog so thick you could cut it with a machete! P030 cuts through the heavy mist with Sand Patch tunnel barely visible in the background.

Q358 stops at the old Bud Board and in the narrows waiting to get into the yard at Cumberland

A freight flies through Wall and past the Pitcairn Intermodal Facility picking up some snow in it's wake as the white stuff comes down pretty hard.

11J flies down the hill past Cassandra.

The eastbound Capitol Limited slows for it's station stop at Cumberland through the narrows and past a stopped westbound autorack waiting for a helper.

An old and worn out leader struggles up the mountain on the Sand Patch grade at the namesake "village" of Sand Patch.

A lone RC SD40-2 waits for it's next assignment as it's sister/brother (2432) humps cars past the impressive tower and into the class yard.

After a week of snow and taking nearly an hour to drive up the icy and snow covered steep Mance Road, I nearly didn't make it to catch Q226 sailing downgrade in a beautiful winter wonderlan... (more)