N&W 4-8-4 J-Class No. 611 eases into downtown old Manassas during the city's annual Heritage Railways Day on Saturday June 6. The No. 611 has just completed its first public excursion for June 6-7... (more)

Breaking the nighttime silence in the bottom of the New River Gorge at Thurmond, eastbound grain loads slice through the summer haze, left behind after a series of thunderstorms earlier in the eve... (more)

Full moon at Hawks Nest.. With some clouds associated with a storm front moving to the east, an eastbound streaks his way through the New River Gorge.

After successfully coupling the train, obtaining three-step protection, and with the blue flag protection down, private car owner Borden Black steps out on her platform to give a 'two thumbs up' a... (more)

Portrait of a railroader.. N&W engineer Owen Hawkins poses for a photo from the cab of N&W 1218. Lerro Productions/Virginia Museum of Transportation.

'Ole Smokey leads the 2010 RJ Corman Derby Train westbound through West Frankfort under gloomy skies. This unusually large steam locomotive would soon be removed at Christiansburg, KY and the F-... (more)

Outside of Quinwood, Rainelle train and work crews carefully observe vehicle traffic below as they cross over Route 20, dumping over a foot of snow on the roadway below. They've managed to success... (more)

The eastbound Rocky Mountaineer catches the final day's sun on the outskirts of Banff National Park as it throttles into one of the few linear sections of Canadian Pacific main near Stephen... (more)

After departing Elk Run Yard during a torrential downpour, CSXT ES44AC No. 872 leads a string of old CSX system hoppers on CSX's Big Coal Subdivision to Sproul. The switch in the foreground is the... (more)

Photo taken with permission.

The rain has paused for just a moment and a hint of blue skies have appeared, making for a dramatic spring background on the recent addition of C&O 614 at the Heritage Center in Clifton Forge.

After uncoupling from its passenger consist at the Frostburg Station, WMSR 2-8-0 No. 734 utilizes the turntable before returning to Cumberland with the 25th anniversary passenger consist in tow.

On a dreary late winter afternoon in Huntington Yard, an unusual unobstructed view allows us to capture much of the railroad's Huntington Locomotive Shops dead/storage line. Here, one particular e... (more)

Positioned in the center of the town's modern day commercial district, the 1906 built Chesapeake & Ohio St. Albans Depot watches over the double track mainline as it has over for a century. An ori... (more)

Former NS EMD SD60 No. 6602, converted to WAMX No. 6000 for use on the Kanawha River Railroad's coal service, rests in the railroad's Dickinson Yard in a sea of storage and manifest cars on the ev... (more)