36Q a Linwood, NC to Allentown, PA manifest beats the last evening light on this Easter Sunday of 2019 at Ashby Station north of Front Royal, VA. The Blue Ridge Mountains off to the right and Mass... (more)

The Winchester and Western "Sandman" navigates the twists and turns of Gainesboro Hill along Hayfield Road in northwest Frederick County, VA.

If you rewind to 2015 you would find that both of these beauties looked nothing like they do today. They had seen better days. Both were in different colors and badly faded. 5940, an EMD GP9 buil... (more)

The Valley Line between Front Royal and Roanoke, VA offers some of the most scenic vistas on the entire east coast. One of the best happens to be near Natural Bridge Station near Glasgow. Seen her... (more)

Crossing the Potomac River at Shepherdstown, WV are the renumbered and repainted Norfolk Southern F OCS locomotives on their first voyage in 2019 destined for the Master's Tournament in Augusta, G... (more)

An eastbound approaches the automatic signals at PT 218 near Birmingham, PA along the Little Juniata Narrows of the "Broadway of Steel" east out of Altoona. These signals, like those eas... (more)

Winchester and Western 86 was running late this evening by about an hour. It made for this incredible scene as it crossed the Potomac River into Maryland just before sunset on its way to Hagerstow... (more)

CLEAR WASHINGTON JUNCTION! Well, that was the name of this location when the B&O built the Metropolitan Branch from DC to Point of Rocks. E792 runs off the Old Main Line from Baltimore whereas M... (more)

After it's blow down and service, N&W 475 marches towards the station where it will pick up its train of excited children and parents on the final Night Before Christmas Train of 2018.

A view rarely seen from "J" Tower is Norfolk and Western M Class Locomotive 475 guiding a train of families on the final "Night Before Christmas" train of 2018. The locomotive ... (more)

After a fresh snowfall overnight CSX E792 marches across the Potomac River at the confluence with the Shenandoah and with the snow covered Blue Ridge Mountains serving as the backdrop during a bri... (more)

W751 rolls through Harpers Ferry, WV on its return trip to Millville a few miles west along the Shenandoah River. In the distance you can see the train's entire length and end on the 1894 bridge a... (more)

Seen crossing the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, WV is this eastbound coal drag destined for Baltimore, MD on a mid afternoon in December.

The Winchester and Western's original mainline between Gore and Winchester follows the twists and turns of the rural countryside. Here The Sandman with high hood GP9 498 leading exits Indian Hollo... (more)

CSX Q216 exits Graham Tunnel and crosses the Potomac River at Magnolia, WV near Paw Paw