On a clear desert night, a BNSF baretable passes under the signal bridge at MP 377 near Mojave, CA. If you look close, a faint green beam can be seen on the opposite side of the signal bridge, in... (more)

Moonlit at OX Cabin. With less than 48 hours remaining before this veteran C&O cantilever is removed from service, partially scrapped on site, and its replacement activated, by end of next week, a... (more)

A northbound D&H light helper drops downgrade under Starrucca Viaduct at Lanesboro, PA on April 10, 1976 with RS36 No. 5009 and a RS3M.

It's 5:48 am at Intermediate signal "Boiler House", just east of C&O's "Riffe Scales". The moon has set, allowing for a sky full of stars to fill up the sky. The codeline still stands in use on CS... (more)

Shoving hard through the interlocking at E.E. White Sulphur, CSX H248, the Ronceverte helper assists 150 loaded coal cars up the grade. The helper will cut off east of Alleghany, Virginia and run ... (more)

A westbound autorack train splits the silence alongside the cemetery in Miller City, Ohio. The US&S bracket signal, a sentinel marking this as a former Nickel Plate Road territory, is headed to th... (more)

Fall in Ohio - some color left in the trees, a light fog in the air and little frost on the ground as a coal train works it's way by Vauces Center Siding.

Black Card Trickery. With advance warning that a short Q302 approached Hilldale, I devised a plan. A bit of exposure pre-train to silhouette the signal, a black card (ok, a piece of cardboard) i... (more)

After shoving a train further east than usual, the Ronceverte helper returns west, passing under the C&O cantilever at E.E. Alleghany.

With a little fall color starting to show, CSX 8075 is the sole power for a set of MTYS from Flint, MI to Russell, KY, as it rolls by the east end of Robbins Center Siding.

Is it 2011 or 1985? Throttling up after emerging from the St. Albans Tunnel, a former C&O SD40-2 leads a train of empty coal hoppers up the Coal River branch line, splitting the mast signals at CP... (more)

This C&O cantilever protects the EEDT (East End of Double Track) at Rockland with a pair of double red aspects. Pictured are Second Creek Tunnel, and visible through it is the East portal of Fort... (more)

With CSX slowly wiping out scenes such as this, the westward absolute signal at the West End of Vauces Center Siding displays a clear indication for an approaching westbound. Another clear indicat... (more)

The fog has settled into the Greenbrier Valley as the westbound C&O signal bridge at "WS Cabin" displays a pair of twin "clear" signals for an oncoming westbound and returning pusher.