The southern West Virginia coalfields are a busy place this morning as several local jobs and mine runs build their trains in the massive Williamson Yard.

Rolling westbound through downtown St. Albans on the former Chesapeake & Ohio mainline, a Newport News, Virginia to Scoville, Idaho DODX move containing Irradiated Radioactive Material receives an... (more)

In preparation for a night photo shoot of C&O 614, a local and his tractor assist with the moving of C&O 5828, another museum piece in the Smiths Creek Yard.

Norfolk Southern GE B32-8 No. 524, formerly numbered NS 3524, sits in Progress Rail' Roanoke facility where it, along with a fleet of retired boxcars, are being scrapped. NS retired much of its B3... (more)

There might not be any photo lines or a Big Boy 4-8-8-4 barreling down this right-of-way along Union Pacific's Overland Route, but this obscure rail line in one of West Virginia'a most remote sect... (more)

After being a nuisance to local residents for several years, they finally decided to remove the entire right of way that leads to their homes, and instead, replacing it with a gravel road. With No... (more)

Ascending Tehachapi Pass on its way to Barstow from Bakersfield, five BNSF locomotives pull a stack train across UP's Mojave Subdivision on the beautiful, and still usually green, Tehachapi Pass i... (more)

A pair of Electro-Motive Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe Tier 4 demonstrators hustle CSX Q317 west across the former B&O in downtown Clarksburg, W.Va., under less than optimal weather conditions.

On a dreary fall afternoon in downtown Gassaway, a respectful percentage of the Elk River Railroad motive power fleet sits in the railroad's small industrial yard. It's debatable how many of the p... (more)

The circus is in town! The final elephant of the Ringling Brothers Red Unit Tour slowly exits one of four animal cars. Special thanks go to the Ringling Bros. employees for allowing me to get this... (more)

In the last light of the evening, the sun shines down on this abandoned 0-4-0 and C&O passenger coach, resting in the CSX Avis Yard in Hinton. The fireless steam engine and coach are display piece... (more)

In the last light of the evening, just 10 minutes before sunset, an eastbound stack train blasts through Newberry Springs, enroute to Needles along the BNSF Transcon.

Empties for the R.J. Corman Loup Creek branch sit idling at the E.E. Rush Run Siding, waiting for an early morning crew to arrive. A full moon and passing clouds help contribute to the depth of th... (more)

The conductor holds on to a boxcar as they roll south onto RJ Corman territory in Thurmond, WV.

Fall peak in Rainelle. With NF&G empties winding their way over the scenic NF&G, this unique aerial perspective captures this years impressive fall color.