After a steady downpour the last drops are noisily landing here and there and the rising fog portends a bright day in the deep hollers along the Kentucky line. The shadows are long nevertheless, ... (more)
Crossing the state line a WB covered hopper train is squiggling through the mountains. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.
East Binghamton to Roanoke manifest NS 11Z knocks down the signal at Stanley (H 95.4) on its trek south through the Shenandoah Valley. Locomotives:(1) NS 8090 (ES44AC)(2) NS... (more)
NS 213 at Charlotte Junction as 24Q comes off the R-Line
A set of 4 NS units lead a westbound ZAILA on New Years Day 2024.
Rolling under the moonlight… With the Christmas holiday past, and the New Year approaching, the lights of the Christmas tree dance over the town as Craig Hamrick and company roll under the mo... (more)
A NS GP60 leads a work train north by Burnside.
Rainbow Era Throughout 2023, and now 2024, Norfolk Southern has experienced systemwide power shortages thanks to their 2019 locomotive purge. At the end of the year, after leasing a small ... (more)
Curve Help: A pair of EMD SD70ACUs work their way westbound up the west slope of Horseshoe Curve, as they head west to shove a train eastbound. On the right side of the frame, the headend of mani... (more)
Curve Meets: Manifest train NS 18N and loaded coal train NS 590 race side by side one another, as they round the bend at Horseshoe Curve, as both trains prepare to enter into Altoona at daybreak.
NS 242 crossing the Broad River
CPKC Blue Sunday in Texas
Pennsy heritage leads NS #180 north on the Griffin District
Empty auto train 27V navigates its way through the yard at Bluefield on a cloudy morning in the mountains
Sunset on the Rockville. Recently I have found myself photographing more of the shortline railroading around the country. Usually you are relegated to working with the weather or lighting that occ... (more)
