Amtrak 51, the westbound Cardinal, rolls west over the Mountain sub through the small town of Goshen. Operation of this line has passed to the Buckingham Branch Railroad which still uses jointed r... (more)

NS 41N eases across Cotton Mill on a blazing hot summer afternoon in central Virginia.

Amtrak 20 glides through Monroe, VA where the Southern once had a depot, yard, roundhouse, and wye. All that remains is the single track mainline that the Crescent still traverses daily, now behin... (more)

NS 188 heads east near Lynchburg with foreign power in the lead on a gorgeous Virginia morning.

Amtrak's Bloody Nose Phase 1 heritage unit leads the Crescent north on a beautiful morning in central Virginia.

The Newport local, LWG55, stops to work Kensett, AR. The crew would cut more than a dozen cars and pull down the spur the runs to Searcy in order to spot the empties from town into the right place... (more)

NS 189, with a BNSF Pumpkin in the lead, snakes through the series of curves on the east end of Bluefield Yard.

A CSX geometry train pulls into Clifton Forge on a beautiful day in early spring, passing the C&O Heritage Center and a GE working the yard.

A ballast train heads north through Arcadia bound for Shenandoah with 22 loads and a couple of spreaders.

Clinchfield's first diesel, 800, a F3 rebuilt to F7 specs, leads the 75th annual Santa Train down her home rails through the winding curves at Sun, VA.

Amtrak 156, the newly extended Northeast Regional that now runs over Blue Ridge grade to Roanoke, flies east through Bedford, VA on a crisp fall morning just after Thanksgiving. This is a classic ... (more)

UP 7744 leads a southbound manifest off the Memphis Subdivision and onto the Hoxie sub at Bald Knob, AR.

CRR 800 leads the 75th Santa Train across the famous bridge at Clincho, VA.

CRR 800 slides through a series of curves at Sun, with the Santa Train in tow.

The Cavalier flies through Appomattox county behind N&W 611. The CPLs here would only last a couple months longer before finally being replaced. While they may not be of 611's era, it was still gr... (more)