Back in 1978, just as it is today, the grassy hill at Alexandria Passenger Station was a great place to spend some time watching and photographing trains. It was busy, with freights from C&O, RF&... (more)

Tomorrow is Christmas day, as I get ready to go home, I catch a WMATA train heading into the Duke Street tunnel.

Tomorrow is Christmas day and Amtrak is busy getting people home for Christmas while a US Airways flight descends into Regan National.

An afternoon piggyback train departs PY and wastes no time accelerating to track speed.

Afternoon VRE train 303 arrives into Alexandria Amtrak as a Metro train arrives into King Street Metro. Train 303 is running with extra cars today, as today is the last working day before Christma... (more)

Q173 heads south on track 3 through Alexandria Station.

CSX intermodal heads south the day after a second record setting blizzard impacts Washington, D.C. during the winter of 2009.

The vast expanse of empty tracks at right is the old southbound class yard. This view offers a glimpse of just how far PY's importance had declined in the late 80's.

Alexandria was well known as the home of the RF&P's Potomac Yard, but it wasn't the only yard in town. The Southern had a small yard and engine house near Duke St., all of which was redeveloped i... (more)

Before all of the NS/CR interchange traffic shifted to the Hagerstown gateway, a set of Conrail SDs lays over in PY's engine terminal.

Growing up just a few miles away from PY, I don't think I fully appreciated the variety that could be seen there. Looking back on it two decades later makes me wish I had visited more often - and... (more)

A rare C32-8 mingles with CSX power at Pot Yard. Between CSX, RF&P, NS, CR, and the D&H, one never knew what interesting power might show up at PY!

A Chessie Geep shares the ready tracks at PY with a relatively rare Conrail C32-8.

Amtrak #20, the northbound Crescent, has just departed Alexandria's King Street Station and is seen heading north toward Union Station in Washington, DC. This view is from the Braddock Road Metro ... (more)