A pair of foreigners in the West Virginia hills bring coal along the twisting right of way past a classic set of N&W CPLs at Chattaroy, WV as the train nears Williamson.

Rolling into its crew change at the Oak Street Yard in Mansfield, NS 12V rolls underneath the signal bridges at CP MANS with NS 1069 leading the charge.

Fall is just about over in the Shenandoah Valley. NS train 18T rolls over the high trestle at Rileyville after meeting 15T at Vaughn-Summit.

123 slowly decends the Old Fort loops at Bruners Cut surrounded by Fall colors.

It's one of those brooding autumn afternoons with intermittent sunlight and exhilarating air. Adding to the exhilaration, here comes NS 9312 West charging out the Juniata River valley at the 4th S... (more)

NS 123 winds around Andrews Geyser at Dendron, NC. The mid-train DPU's had barely disappeared on the high fill when the lead units appeared below.

NS 9398 leading a renumbered Conrail SD60 and 111 cars of manifest traffic rolls out the Juniata River valley at Leshville, a few miles east of Newport. J. Edgar Thompson's selection of this route... (more)

New passes old. Train 123 heads east through Barnard, NC on its way up to Asheville. Barnard used to be a busy little town with a passenger depot for vacationers. Now, all that remains is this bui... (more)

"Watching Steam at Shippensburg" Shippensburg Pennsylvania Locals pause on the side of Possum Hollow Road to watch Norfolk Southern train 955 with N&W 611 fly by on it's way from Roanoke, ... (more)

With the Pennsylvania Heritage unit up front NS 223 heads east for Danville before heading south to Atlanta.

Stand back, now; this baby's rolling. The Pennsy era signal bridge at Mapleton, PA, situated in a high speed, super-elevated curve, was always an attraction. Westbounds pour on the power coming ou... (more)

On one of those moody, overcast autumn afternoons, NS 9147 is slugging it out on the ascent to Gallitzin. Most regrettably, the signal bridge of Pennsylvania Railroad origin no longer stands to sp... (more)

Clean Up, Track 3...

At 8:40 PM on the evening of July 5, 2019, westbound manifest 34A derailed the first 11 cars as it entered the main arc of Horseshoe Curve. The three locomotives... (more)

The PRR style position light signals at Summerhill, PA have less than two weeks of life in them before Norfolk Southern cuts and dismantles these and their comrades on the famed West Slope. In be... (more)

As severe storms start to roll in from the mountains, a few rays of sun peak through the clouds over the James River as 212 makes their way north with the New York Central and Penn Central heritag... (more)