Former Seaboard System 5900 sits in the "pocket" of B-yard resting the night away before going out in the morning on a work train.

On a drive through Montana, I caught this westbound stack train with a pair of Cascade Green SD40-2's.

No stranger to this yard, CSX 6249, former B&O 4350, takes the lead on the first "Valley Local" of the week.

With a fresh crew on board now, Q217 begins to accelerate westbound at historic Reels Mill, Maryland.

After coupling up to the rear of a Bennings, DC, bound coal train, the conductor of the B213 Helper heads back to the cab of 8571 as freezing rain falls.

A CSX ACE sits under the lights in A Yard.

Kickin' cars on the B-ladder!

One of my favorite classes of locomotive, a rebuilt SD40-2, leads manifest Q376 down the Potomac River Valley near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. This leader began life as C&O SD40 7509 built in Ju... (more)

Westbound E729 passes the strangely dark Eastbound Absolute Signals at Harpers Ferry. This is the first time in the seven years since the installation of these signals that I have seen them dark. ... (more)

A one-of-a-kind version of the YN 2 CSX scheme adorns this mother and slug set assigned to a rail train.

2am and former RF&P 145, sits at Millville, West Virginia, without a train to pull. To the left of 6397 are the streaks left by Q753 shoving their empties into the Stone Yard.

Still in full Chessie C&O paint, this out-of-service caboose sit's at the small yard of Pearson.

It is 3am and D790 the "Apple Bloosom Special", waits for its crew who is inside the yard office going over their trainorders before the trip to Winchester, Virginia.

The sun is about to set as 12R with a "BuNny SniFfer" leader passes some horses chowin' down on some good ole' hay south of Berryville, Virginia.

An NS DASH 9 and a CSX AC60 haul intermodal 203 past the signals at Audley.