BB 5 arriving in Charlottesville from Staunton, VA, passes BB 1 sporting new paint and the addition of yellow, visibility-enhancing zebra striping.

BB 1 sporting new paint and the addition of yellow, visibility-enhancing zebra striping rests after a day's work at the BBRR office near downtown Charlottesville. Portion of the former C&O statio... (more)

BB 9 and BB 5 wait on the Middle Depot Track in Charlottesville, VA, behind the Amtrak station (ex-SOU) for a three-hour late Cardinal, Train #50, to arrive before proceeding west.

UP power on NS rail train 912 ducks into the storage track north of Kemper Street Station in lynchburg to retrieve a gondola car. Train has just set off four ribbons of 136 lb. CWR which will be ... (more)

A UP trio brings NS train 214 past the construction site where work is being done to get ready for the October 1, 2009, start-up of Northeast Corridor Regional service into Central Virginia. That... (more)

NS train 204 passes intense construction activity at the north end of the platform at Kemper Street Station in Lynchburg. Work began yesterday in preparation for the start-up of Northeast Regiona... (more)

Thanks to a CSX derailment at Green Mountain, NC, some traffic was rerouted over the Norfolk Southern. Here is eastbound grain train G98225 on the NS Old Main Line in downtown Lynchburg. It's co... (more)

Two young Wild Wing Cafe patrons abandon their parents and dinner to watch a passing CSXT train go by the restaurant, which used to be the Southern Ry., then Amtrak station.

NS 5116 shoves four empty side-dump cars and cab east past the Matewan Depot Replica. Rip-rap had just been deposited about 500 feet behind me to fill in a washout from the devastating flash floo... (more)

Thanks to a CSX derailment near Petersburg, VA, the day before, AMtrak's Auto-Train had to be rerouted onto the Norfolk Southern via Selma and Greensboro, NC. Crew change took place at Charlottes... (more)

Ringling Bros. (RBBX) Red Unit making the jump from Greensboro, NC, to Richmond, VA, is seen edging out on Cotton Mill trestle as it leaves Lynchburg following a crew change and animal servicing s... (more)

1218, sans train, gets watered at the west end of Kinney Yard in Lynchburg, VA.

BB 8 shoves two emtpy hopper cars back to the Charlotteville, VA, yard having just worked the University of Virginia power plant.

Seaboard System, Family Lines and NS units bring NS train 341 south past the Amtrak platform in Charlottesville, VA

Eastbound CSXT grain train along an iced over James River about to enter the city of Lynchburg from Bedford County at MP CAB 151. Tobacco Row Mountain in the background and surrounding trees spo... (more)