NS mine run U46 eases out of the Toms Creek load out and passes by the local little league field in Coeburn, VA with a freshly rebuilt SD60E leading.
Running as lite engines back to Norton after spotting coal loads at the Tacoma Storage track, NS U4N passes under an abandoned coal load out just east of the yard in Norton with the 'Interstate' 8... (more)
With heritage engines 8114 (NS) and 8105 (Interstate) doing the honors, NS Norton Shifter U4N works eastbound at Tacoma with a short train of coal loads to be set out at the Tacoma Storage track t... (more)
With heritage engines 8114 (NS) and 8105 (Interstate) doing the honors, NS U4N gets underway out of the yard at Norton with coal loads bound for the storage track at Tacoma
Recently repainted NS SD40-2 6170 leads the Andover-Knoxville train 386 eastbound on NS's Appalachia District.
Leading its first revenue train NS' 'Original' Norfolk Southern heritage engine brings NS 387 eastbound through Mascot, TN.
Norfolk Southern's Interstate heritage engine works the U57 at Andover, VA with a short cut of loaded NS system hoppers. The 'Interstate' was born in this coal mining community and the appearance ... (more)
Under the dark and rainy skies of a spring thunderstorm NS' Interstate heritage unit leads a westbound light engine move over the North Fork of the Clinch River.
NS SD70ACe 1053 shoves a short 386 eastbound away from Big Stone Gap on NS's Appalachia District. On the head end a pair of GP38-2s are leading a dead in tow SD70 and GP60. That dead weight, combi... (more)
The week-old paint of NS' Interstate Railroad heritage locomotive glistens against the dark background of Little Tunnel just a few feet away from "Natural Tunnel" on NS' Appalachia District.
Behind a pair of SD40-2s the westbound Frisco Turn works along Stock Creek at Glenita just prior to entering Natural Tunnel.
The Andover-Frisco turn (NS 386) rolls eastbound into Duffield behind a unique mix of EMD power with the surrounding mountains quickly greening up after a mild winter. more)
Southbound Amtrak #391 (the Saluki) blasts through downtown Gilman, IL on CN's Chicago Subdivision. more)
A CTA Brown line train makes the tight turn at Tower 18 (Lake & Wells Streets) junction in the heart of downtown Chicago. This junction is considered to be one of the busiest railroad junctions in... (more)
CN's Gilman Local works the small yard north of downtown Gilman on a beautiful spring morning.
Roster shots on a sunny day in Whittier, Alaska are hard to pass up! A pair of Alaska RR GP40-2s await a crew to take them and a freight train north to Anchorage.
A Seward-bound passenger train skirts the Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage on a picture perfect summer afternoon in Alaska. Forty eight years ago today on March 27, 1964, the Good Friday Earthquak... (more)
NS 77A westbound on the NS Appalachia District just west of Gate City with 'Southern' heritage #8099 catching the late afternoon rays of sunlight, less than 6 days out of the paint shop.
Less than a week out of the paint shop in Chattanooga, NS 'Southern' Heritage GE ES44AC #8099 leads empty coal train 77A westbound at Watkins siding on the former Southern Railway Appalachia Divis... (more)
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)
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)
Its a blustery and cool May evening in Lincoln, NE as a DPU on a westbound empty coal train idles near the Lincoln Terminal Yard Office as seen from the Yard Tower. Soon this train, and the other ... (more)
A cool and rainy fall day finds a westbound empty CSX hopper train operating on NS trackage rights near Gate City, VA on its trek from Erwin, TN to Loyall, KY.
A pair of leased HLCX SD40-2s lead the eastbound Yuma Turn through Gate City on a damp autumn afternoon.
A pair of brand new CSX GE ES44ACs (950 and 953) sporting the modified CSX 'boxcar' logo lead train Q696 southbound by the south end of Starnes siding on the former Clinchfield. Thanks goes to Cha... (more)
A pair of brand new CSX GE ES44ACs (950 and 953) sporting the modified CSX 'boxcar' logo lead train Q696 southbound through the elevated curve at milepost 68 on the north end of the former Clinchf... (more)
Westbound NS 387 with a pair of leased HLCX ex-BN SD40-2s works its way through the late evening shadows at Wildcat, VA. ... (more)
Westbound NS 387 with a pair of leased HLCX ex-BN SD40-2s works its way through Jasper, VA. Clic... (more)
Westbound Knoxville-Clinton local T12 rolls through Old Broadway on a beautiful Saturday afternoon behind a trio of SD40-2s. more)
Two CSX GEs leading a southbound TILX loaded coal train N301 across the Copper Creek Viaduct as the morning fog is still burning out of the Clinch River Valley.
The rear DPU of an eastbound loaded coal train sits at the west end of Lincoln Yard along with three other eastbound trains with the Nebraska State Capitol's tower rising in the background. With a... (more)
Eastbound NS coal loads roll by the signal at Jasper on a beautiful fall afternoon in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia.
It is a damp and dreary early fall afternoon as seen from one of ARR's cab cars (former Amtrak F40PH #244) on the rear of Alaska Railroad's Hurricane Turn as we fly through Chase, Alaska at 63 mph... (more)
CSX 9006 leads a northbound work train through the late afternoon shadows and fall foliage at Sun, Virginia on the north end of the former Clinchfield RR.
Westbound empty hopper train pulls up the engine track in Bluefield Yard completing its run up the Virginia Division from Roanoke.
A pair of NS ES44ACs lead a westbound empty Georgia Power hopper train slowing as it winds through Coeburn, VA on the NS Clinch Valley mainline before making a turn up the Toms Creek Branch for an... (more)
Former Chattanooga Traction Company SW1 #4 poses beside a Southern Rwy boxcar near Downtown Knoxville. SW1 #4 and Southern-painted SW1 #1007 will both be used in a Vintage Diesel Railfan Photo Day... (more)
A pair of Alaska RR SD70MACs lead a loaded gravel train off of the Palmer Branch at Matanuska Junction, the branch's junction with the ARR mainline. The train will run south of Anchorage to one of... (more)
It's a peaceful fall afternoon at the Lick Creek Christan Church just outside of Piney Flats as westbound NS work train 93W breaks the silence.
C&TS 489 leading the daily Chama-Antonito passenger train as it nears the top of Cumbres Pass on a beautiful summer day in southern Colorado.
CSX loaded coal train T377 is seen here operating on NS trackage rights at Frisco Yard and is just a few hundred feet away from diverging off of the NS mainline and back onto CSX rails for the res... (more)
SLRG Monte Vista turn shoving around the San Luis Central Interchange at Monte Vista, CO.
Westbound UP freight gets underway out of Cheyenne a few moments ahead of UP 844's departure back to Denver.
Northbound Antonito-Alamosa Rio Grande Scenic passenger train behind SLRG #18 passes a retired Rio Grande boxcar near La Jara, CO. The landscape in this part of southern Colorado is dotted with ma... (more)
NS eastbound freight 186 rolling through Ingleside, WV and passing a classic N&W signal on its eastbound trek from Bluefield to Roanoke.
NS Frisco local T74 with a pair of freshly repainted SD40-2s completes this rural scene at the west end of Frisco Yard as they work to sort out tank cars before clearing up in the yard for a pair ... (more)
Southbound light engine move X098 with road slug 2367 leading its GP40-2 mother and a pair of freshly repainted GP38-2 rolls across the Copper Creek Viaduct at Clinchport. This set of power is bou... (more)
Southbound light engine move X098 rolls out of the tunnel at Hill Station, VA on the former Clinchfield with road slug 2367 on the point.
