In a cold and dreary winter drizzle, NS 5117 idles on the old passing track at Big Stone Gap as a CSX trackage rights train approaches on the main---climbing out of "Furnace Dip."

Running on NS trackage rights from L&N Junction to the mine at Mayflower, above St. Charles, an empty Seaboard System unit coal train winds along the valley of the North Fork of the Powell River n... (more)

CSX EMD and GE mine run power waits for assignments at Quinnimont, along the famed New River sub of C&O heritage. The small terminal was still fairly active, handling coal off the branch from Rale... (more)

A well-weathered standard Santa Fe station sign at an extremely remote junction in the Mojave Desert marks the location where the (now) Arizona & California swaps cars with the former owner of the... (more)

Four six-motor EMDs have a CSX unit coal train in tow at Copper Creek. All are in Seaboard System paint except the well-worn ex-Chessie unit. Third unit back is a rare bird--an SD45. The train is ... (more)

An Amtrak "Pepsi Can" GE is powering one of the morning San Joaquin passenger runs at the venerable ex-Santa Fe passenger station in Stockton. A gaggle of fans is gathered, but they'll shortly hea... (more)

A single unit handles a northbound string of empty hoppers at Copper Creek, on fall afternoon. A glimpse of the NS trestle below can be seen in the bottom of the frame.

Running on CSX trackage rights (the ex-Clinchfield), this NS coal train flies over the small Copper Creek valley near Speers Ferry, VA. The train originated at the NS Norton Yard, and attained CSX... (more)

Etched by the slowly dropping evening sun on a winter day, this westbound CSX freight is dropping downgrade on NS trackage rights, bound for eastern Kentucky. The grade the hopper train traverses ... (more)

Out in the desolation that is the Mojave Desert, Santa Fe SD40-2 5094 grinds upgrade slowly at the lower end of the huge reverse curve on the westbound main at Siberia, CA. It's still a long haul ... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe double stack roars through a dip at remote Lavic, California, on the long stretch across the Mojave from Barstow to Needles.

The waving hoghead on CSX 570 East encounters an Approach signal at Jasper, MP 15T, on the NS Appalachia District. Waiting in the clear on the signaled siding is NS 2700 West. At the far end of th... (more)

Great Western GP9 211--a former UP unit--handles a mixed train hauling VIP riders as it heads back to Longmont, CO, the company's operating headquarters. The GW was once a major sugar carrier in t... (more)

This is actually ex-L&N trackage, but the date denotes the fact this is a Seaboard System train. These three units are shoving the last two miles upgrade to Norton, VA on the CV Subdivision. The y... (more)

The 1989 Santa Claus Special stops briefly on Copper Creek for a few photographers. The two F-units were both ex-Clinchfield units, although the B-unit was first built for the Nashville, Chattanoo... (more)