Natural Tunnel... A place that has been on my shot list for years is Natural Tunnel. Located in Duffield, Virginia, this tunnel was mostly carved by Stock Creek. The railroad had to carve through ... (more)

Creech, an Agonizing Wait, and a stellar result. After chasing C633 out to Loyall we heard them get an EC-1 to operate up to Creech on the former L&N Merna spur just south of Harlan, Kentucky, in ... (more)

KCS Job 16 is southbound through Saucier, Ms, with a screaming team of four grey SD40-2's doing the honors. A rare sight that most likely will never be repeated.

Engineer Mike Tallent and Conductor Mitchell Hicks shove a loaded T700 up Duff Mountain grade in rural north Tennessee. They're barely making the rail as the wet day has caused the lead engines o... (more)

Florida Gulf and Atlantic's BA-TA-2 splits the signals at the distant to Olustee siding headed westbound just a few miles to tie the train down in Lake City, Florida. Yesterday did not net the cha... (more)

KCS Job 16 is seen slowly moving into the town of Wiggins, Ms, behind three of the last motors holding out on the KCS roster in the battleship grey. Down to just a handful of four or five motors t... (more)

NS 956, the empty Norfolk Southern OCS back to Altoona, Pa, screams northbound through Athens, Tennessee, in perfect late afternoon light. There's hardly any places on the NS Knoxville west end th... (more)

CSX M735-30 rounds the curve on the CSX P&A sub into Pensacola with the last true road train that will ever operate for CSX on the line. YN2 AC4400 395 made a great leader, and the clouds held off... (more)

FEC 218 cruises north through the Saint Augustine Marsh just prior to dawn on a beautiful morning in Florida.

Champs north. FEC 218, which is running late today, is seen here as it rumbles across the marsh and next to the San Sebastian river in St. Augustine as the sun rises. All three trains here this fi... (more)

Retro Blues lead NB Florida East Coast train 230 into the morning sun in Saint Augustine, Florida. The brilliant blue is a striking contrast to the Yellow and Red Champion paint scheme that most o... (more)

It was a beautiful morning in Pensacola. Q602-11 had made a mostly nocturnal run from Mobile-Pensacola over the PD and M&M Subs. He got a new crew, and the train was ready to leave town around 8:0... (more)

The Montana Rail Link's gas local is doing its twice daily battle of Evaro Hill as it fights to take the 20 car train to Pipeline near Thompson Falls, Montana. The train also has lumber for TRL be... (more)

M736 with a sweet leader for 2017 slides down the west track just north of Downtown Pensacola. I wasn't planning on stopping for anything, but when 736 toned up with the 8576 I turned downtown to ... (more)

With the news that the P&A and Tallahassee Subdivisions would be put up for sale I had been trying to get as many shots as I could of the line before it was not under CSX ownership any longer. Wit... (more)