The clouds are beginning to clear over the Potomac as 304 pushes toward D.C. [a nod to Mr. Hamlin for pioneering the sunrise shot here]

Commuters head for home at sunset on New Year's Eve

Birds flock overhead as 306 pushes north shortly before dawn

VRE 308 has locomotives on both ends this morning

VRE 308 has just passed the Neabsco defect detector shortly after dawn

Just after sunrise

Shortly after dawn

Pre-dawn

Engineer enjoying the nice weather!

Southbound past the massive Possum Point generating station.

The final Fredericksburg train of the day heads south at twilight

This VRE commuter had two non-working cab cars in the consist and had to have its GP40H-2 put on the point, resulting in this different view of a locomotive leading a northbound. The engine starte... (more)

VRE 331 south pulls into Alexandria station as Amtrak 80 Carolinian loads passengers. CSX U-323 (dead-on-clock) coal cars are in the background

A lone commuter watches the full moon rise over Manassas, VA, on Hallowe'en 2001 as the last northbound VRE train prepares to depart for Washington.

VRE 330 is heading east cab first with V06 pushing from the rear