Held for 5 seconds and done three times, Fireman Andrew Giardina blows down #26 in the east end of the Lackawanna Railroad yard at Steamtown National Historic Site.

"Tunnel Vision" is sometimes a good thing! SRC #90 is under the former PRR catenary that held as the passageway of many GG1s some 50 to 60 years ago. Even with those days long gone #90, ... (more)

Wabash heritage unit #1070 drifts downgrade through Maybeury, WV on March 7, 2021. This area of the Pocahontas Division was originally electrified, but upon realignment and construction in the lat... (more)

Soon after the eastbound coal drag, the eastbound manifest overnighting from Portsmouth, OH finally arrived and I headed east back through Welch and waited for her departure. About 30 minutes late... (more)

Wielding the scoop, Fireman Earl Knoob has N&W #475 simmering at the pops in preparation for a day along the Road to Paradise.

"West to Williamson!": Norfolk Southern #8044, after a brief crew change, charges west into the Pocahontas Division and the coal fields of West Virginia with its manifest train on Januar... (more)

Southern #630, a rather large consolidation type, stomps out of East Chattanooga pulling happy passengers on the Missionary Ridge local.

A product of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1929, #26, an 0-6-0 switcher passes the former Lackawanna switch tower pulling the "Scranton Limited".

In honor of all veterans on this Veteran's Day 2019...

"Thunder at Brush": Western Maryland, Ex-Chesapeake & Ohio, 2-6-6-2 Mallet H-6 #1309 blasts out of Brush Tunnel on the former Western Maryland right of way on the Western Maryland Scenic... (more)

Continuing west of Bluefield, the action on the Pocahontas Division continues at Falls Mills, VA. Here, SD70ACe #1051 is greeted to a classic smalltown scene as it leads two other units east to Bl... (more)

Engineman, and the morning's hostler, Dave Domitrovich rakes over the coals in the belly of the beast.

Norfolk Southern #3624 slips through the fog with its manifest freight train outside of Narrows, VA on NS' Christiansburg District during the early morning hours of April 26, 2021.

As NS #4384 continued west with its empty coal train on January 16, 2021 multiple eastbounds awaited their turn at Capels, WV. One of them, a loaded ethanol train lead by NS #4135, departed Capels... (more)

Remember those S curves I mentioned? Here, NS 55W rounds the bend at Cox's Cutoff heading west about 20 minutes out of finally arriving to Bluefield. If you look carefully you can see the trailing... (more)