CSX F40PH #1 leads the CSX Office Car Special south through Richmond in the early morning hours of September 21, 2023. The train is deadheading back from a business meeting with various coal execu... (more)

CSXT 1776 leads M415 at track speed heading southbound on the James River Bridge. After being held up for several hours, CSX finally was able to get the train into Richmond. Due to the train havin... (more)

On June 25th, 2022 - the New York and Lake Erie hosted a private photo charter involving some rare-mileage and its fleet of active locomotives. Lined up nicely next to the Gowanda depot, the vener... (more)

Norfolk Southern 12Z is climbing up the NS Roanoke District out of Roanoke on its way to Shenandoah, Virginia. At Vesuvius, VA - the northbound navigates a series of curves that allow northbound t... (more)

CSXT 911, the First Responders unit is shoving hard on one of the few up-grade stretches of mainline east of Clifton Forge. The grade spans most of the famous trestle that covers the Richmond Sky-... (more)

A CSX coal train races against the shadows of cloud cover down the Rivanna Subdivision on its way to east with a long load of coal. The power for this train is a duo of CSX's tested and proven AC4... (more)

Norfolk Southern 1006 leads NS V24, the Richmond-West Point (and return) local into Richmond, Virginia in the mid-day hours of March 6th, 2022. The Richmond skyline can be seen in the background, ... (more)

Canadian National power leads a loaded Molten Sulfur train over the former Atlantic Coast Line bridge, which goes over the Roanoke River and the town of Weldon. It also traversed above the SAL rig... (more)

An empty CSX grain train rolls past the estate known on the railroad as Frederick Hall, with a C40-8W upgraded to have newer electronic parts. It was surprising to see that Fall Foliage had lasted... (more)

The Chesapeake & Ohio has one of the largest rosters of surviving steam locomotives in the United States; with many locomotives having been either donated or reserved (and being donated afterwards... (more)

If there's anything that optimizes the old and venerable shortline railroad, one of the best symbols of that would be old and forgotten motive power from days past. The Pickens Railroad doesn't ju... (more)

The first diesel locomotives that helped end the 'Empire of Steam' in the United States are commonly overlooked, when compared to locomotives like the E8, GP9's and so forth. One of these firsts w... (more)

They say that black smoke is a sign of waste for steam locomotives. While that may be true - from a railfan's perspective it is quite the look! The 475 is shown here, displaying massive plumes of ... (more)

There are few tales of preservation attempts that are as unknown, yet so sad as the story of the National Railways of Mexico #3028. The NdeM 4-8-4's, named 'Niagara' were perhaps some of the stron... (more)

Black River & Western #60, after a year and a half long hiatus finally returned to steam this weekend after many countless hours by volunteers and workers to make sure the locomotive was in runnin... (more)