Southbound CSX freight Q696 working through the reverse curves at Phillips Yard, just south of Dante in the heart of former Clinchfield RR country following a quick snowfall the night before.

A C&TS photo freight train works uphill toward the top of Cumbres Pass as seen from the rear of the train. This may be the C&TS in 2008 but not much about this image keeps it from being the DRGW 5... (more)

Knoxville Locomotive Works' first repowered low emissions diesel, the KLW 20B #2250, leads westbound Knoxville & Holston River RR train 101 back into downtown Knoxville on a beautiful spring day w... (more)

Northbound CSX Q697 working through a winter wonderland scene at Trammel, VA on the former Clinchfield mainline.

A heavy snowfall the previous night has left the northern end of the former Clinchfield RR in a winter wonderland scene as southbound freight Q696 gets underway at the south end of Allen siding af... (more)

A new 'boxcar' logo CSX GE leads a westbound empty hopper train through small community of Daniel Boone. In the steam era, a very active yard/wye was in place here (behind the engines in this fram... (more)

A new 'boxcar' logo CSX GE leads a westbound empty hopper train through Gate City on a beautiful late winter afternoon.

A southbound BNSF Z train works around the famous Tehachapi Loop on a beautiful January morning. more)

Westbound TILX empty hoppers roll out of Natural Tunnel led by a pair if CSX GEs. This train is operating on NS trackage rights en route to Big Stone Gap where it will be back on CSX rails for the... (more)

Three GEs lead a westbound BNSF stack train as it works up the stiff grade at Ash Hill on the Needles Subdivision.

With the morning sun just a few degrees over the eastern horizon a westbound BNSF intermodal train races across the roller coaster profile of the Needles Subdivision at Pisgah.

What appears to be one very long Z train is actually two trains, a westbound and an eastbound Z train meeting on the double track BNSF Needles Subdivision near Goffs with the famous Route 66 in th... (more)

Southbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #564 works along the Pacific coast at Del Mar enroute to its on-time arrival in San Diego about 20 miles to the south. This day's 564 featured a unique F59, P42... (more)

Eastbound NS stack train 23G stopped on the mainline at Crockett, VA awaiting a westbound's arrival.

Former Southern Railway 2-8-0 154, restored and operated by the Gulf & Ohio Railways / Knoxville & Holston River Railroad, rests after three days of pulling Christmas Santa Trains on the Three Riv... (more)