The WE Medora signals light up as J780 enters the block. This was the last intact siding between Seymour and Mitchell...but it has since been torn out. All the trappings of a classic line are here... (more)

13.4 miles left to Berkeley Run Junction, and three A&O geeps are hauling 80 loads of coal past the intermediate signals in Phillipi. This line is the last place to find B&O CPLs in West Virginia,... (more)

In true N&W fashion, CCET runs long-hood forward, leading a train of locomotives and equipment for work at Sardinia. They're passing the signal for the west end of Afton Siding, still guarded by C... (more)

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j8n7H_plkY&t= On a perfect summer morning, GLC 390 rumbles north towards Traverse City with several former Southern Railway TSBY hoppers headed for the ... (more)

A UP-led stack train weaves between the C&O freighthouse and station in the middle of Plymouth as it heads for Detroit.

The BIP rumbles over Rainbow Creek heading towards the end of the line at Globe, on ex-B&O rails.

Unmistakably Canadian National in the 2010-built roundhouse protecting the Age Of Steam fleet.

A pair of CEFX SD60s leave Langsville Tunnel in the dust as they near Hobson Yard. These SD60s have since left the Kanawha River.

After dumping ballast along the line, KN92 took Armitage Siding to meet northbound manifest KN381, the first time Armitage held a train in several years. After 381 cleared, and with light getting... (more)

As KN381 passes, its unusual appearance is revealed. It has five cars and an SD60 on both ends, which made getting it in good light a lot easier!

Though the scene looks like Norfolk Southern, this is all Kanawha River Railroad's operation. Run-through power from NS and UP head up a coal train, while patched ex-NS SD60s wait to shove trains ... (more)

"The Way It's Been in Bartlett" Conway Scenic GP7 number 573 runs around it's train, passing the old train order signal. I have a Maine Central book with an extremely similar shot fr... (more)

Empties head west for more black diamonds on a perfect early summer evening.

Two blue SD60s rumble south with a manifest in the fading light of the day.

A clean ES40DC leads NS' hottest train, NS 218 the UPS train, down the former N&W line from Columbus to Portsmouth. 218 wastes no time, and after an intense 20-mile chase I was only a couple secon... (more)