After working the New Yard on the opposite side of town, local J11 brings their covered hoppers back up the "north side" and await permission from the CSX "FG" Dispatcher to cr... (more)

Tied down in front of the 16th Street yard office for the night, yard power CSXT 6904 & slug 2250 idle away on a rainy December night, awaiting the last round of work before the Christmas holiday.

Kanawha River Railroad train 380 is tied down at the west end of Hobson Yard, waiting on a recrew to take the train south to Dickison Yard in Quincy, WV. After the WATCO-owned shortline took over... (more)

Coal train 83N departs Gilbert Yard with a loaded coal train for Bluefield, passing over Gilbert Creek west of town. At the rear of the loaded train shoving is NS EMD SD70ACe 1141 as well as DC t... (more)

Life is like a bunch of chocolates.. you never know what you're gonna get. The same can be said for a railroad hub such as Cincinnati, Ohio, where two Class I's, several shortlines and a sp... (more)

With two leased CIT SD60's and 118 cars of freight from the Kanawha Valley, northbound manifest KNWA KN381 crosses the Ohio River Bridge at a brisk 10mph. The entire consist is still on the ex-CR/... (more)

On the final approach to the last stop at Kingsport, P935-17 crosses the North Fork of the Holston River with their 3-engine, 12-car consist in tow for the 76th running of the Santa Train.

Nearing the end of the crew's run from Williamson, westbound manifest 17M passes underneath the ex-C&O Northern Subdivision and crosses the Little Scioto River slowing down for a crew change at St... (more)

As the light fades early in the evening, Roanoke bound manifest 188 passes the dual-mast & single-mast CPL's at McCarr just east of Matewan. The eastbound replacement signals are already in place... (more)

Fiery skies glow overhead as the east end Eastbound Yard job idles on one of the switching leads at Russell waiting on a switching signal to come in. A line of tornadic thunderstorms formed from t... (more)

All we need is a paint brush and some B&O Blue. The Parkersburg Yard job pulls 12 cars dropped off by one of the two road freights into the Low Yard and prepares to head back out the transf... (more)

CSXT 871 shoves a short train of empty trash containers over the crest of the nearly 1% grade at Summit on it's short trip from the landfill in Coalton to Russell Yard. After a short 2-year run, ... (more)

Amtrak America...sort of

Amtrak's two Phase III heritage-schemed motors, P40DC #822 and P42DC #145 are on the point of the westbound Cardinal, slowing down for their station stop at ... (more)

In the final days of the Virginian P-D District, U91 makes its way across the northern section of the line from Alloy on the West Virginia Secondary to Elmore, near Mullens, passing under Sweeneyb... (more)

Southbound coal loads for Eastman Chemical's coal gasification plant head down the Cumberland Valley Subdivision towards the connection with the ex-Southern Appalachia District. After arriving at ... (more)