After working the CSX interchange at Ocala, FCEN 1802 ties down on the former ACL main at the FNOR office just north of the diamond. FCEN 1802 is a former IC GP9 rebuilt to GP11 specifications.

Waycross to Miami manifest Q453-19 crosses the ACL/SAL diamond at Ocala on CSX's ex-SAL Wildwood Subdivision between Baldwin and Wildwood. The leader, CSX's Honoring First Responders unit is passi... (more)

Russell bound manifest Q694-13 crosses the Levisa Fork westbound on the Big Sandy Subdivision on a dreary March afternoon. At left is the bridge of the Big Sandy Sub's predecessor, the Chatteroi R... (more)

On a cold and dreary night, crossties with rails freshly pulled sit spread apart on the ROW of the former N&W Mate Creek Branch constructed off the Pocahontas District mainline to access coal mine... (more)

After waiting on westbound loads to turn east on the Kanawha Subdivision, empties head east on the Logan Subdivision towards Peach Creek, where a C&O shifter crew will take the train to be loaded ... (more)

NS 135 begins the climb up the 2.2% grade of the famous Southern Loops on Norfolk Southern's Asheville District main line. Operational changes in association with TOP21 earlier this year took ... (more)

Many things have changed in the sleepy coal town of Thurmond, WV, nestled in the middle of the New River Gorge in southern WV. One thing that hasn't changed.. the railroad's importance to moving f... (more)

On the second day of their journey from Roanoke, VA to St. Louis, MO, NS 957 heads west on the Kenova District on Main 1 passing under the steam era coaling tower at Prichard with NS 7, the "... (more)

Fiery skies glow overhead as the east end Eastbound Yard job idles on one of the switching leads at Russell waiting on a switching signal to come in. A line of tornadic thunderstorms formed from t... (more)

Two hundred and twenty CSX coal buckets pulled by four GE Evolution series locomotives head east down the ex-C&O Logan Subdivision, with the lead locomotive dwarfed by the steam era coaling tower ... (more)

On its first revenue run after being painted in the Honoring Law Enforcement scheme by the fine folks at CSX's Huntington Locomotive Shops, CSX 3194 leads Russell to Waycross freight Q693-25 past ... (more)

The drab grey of the Monogahela Railway heritage unit blends in to the surrounding atomsphere on a rainy October day as the unit shoves on the rear of loaded coal train NS 776 heading down the for... (more)

A golden autumn sunset falls over the former Chesapeake & Ohio, now CSX Huntington Locomotives Shops as the seemingly endless line of stored early generation EMD locomotives in the "Upper Yar... (more)

Motive power for the inaugural Autumn Colors Express, the successor to the New River Train, runs around the 21-car consist on Main 2 during the layover at Hinton, WV. Two heritage-schemed P42DC's ... (more)

With 100 loads of coal from Contura Coal's McClure Mine in tow, T209-17 heads east on the James River Subdivision crossing the line's namesake at Button's Bluff heading for export at Newport News,... (more)