An eastbound ballast train with a solid consist of new orange ballast hoppers rounds a curve on the former N&W mainline east of Crewe.

Virginia Southern GP0-9 No. 618 prepars to pickup the loaded pulpwood cars from the team track at Green Bay. The Virginia Southern hauled woodchips and pulpwood picked up on its line to Burkeville... (more)

A SCL GP38-2 moves a transformer load northbound through LaCrosse on a cold January day. The train is on the now abandoned Seaboard Air Line Railway main line and is about to pass under the RT 58 ... (more)

When bumped from road assignments by new motive power, the big Alco C630's were coupled with slugs and worked the yard assignments at N&W Lambert's Point.

SCL Train No. 110 rounds the curve at BX Tower after leaving Collier Yard with a motive power consist of seven locomotives.

Virginia Southern GP-9 No. 618 (an ex-B&O unit) sports a new paint scheme at Keysville. The VS was Class lll short line railroad started in 1988 that was run by the North Carolina and Virginia RR ... (more)

CSXT GP39-2 No. 4308 leads a southbound freight through Starke. Like many of the older CSXT locomotives that frequently worked in the hot and dusty environment of phosphate assignments, the 4308 h... (more)

Amtrak's southbound Palmetto rounds the sweeping curve at BX Tower with one P30CH as motive power.

Two Amtrak SDP40 diesels in Phase 3 paint scheme round the curve at Chester with the northbound Silver Star.

RF&P agent Tommy Boyd passes up orders to the CSXT Conductor of the westbound local as it departs Doswell for its trip on the Mountain Subdivision. Doswell was the only on-line agency on the RF&P ... (more)

Former Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 No. 610 rolls a southbound Southern Railway excursion train through Covesville while passing a northbound Southern Ry freight train of "Big John" hopper cars.

NS freight is east of Blackstone.

Southern Railway FP7's 6141 and 6146 take Train 405 under Pennsylvania RR catenary and past RF&P's RO Tower at the north end of Potomac Yard.

The northbound Silver Star rolls through South Richmond on a dreary day after Christmas 1981.

The economic recession of the late-1970's - early-1980's ended the service of many older locomotives. Here are two tracks of N&W locomotives, including many GP9's, that were stored and out of serv... (more)