Slightly over three hours into the new month, a heavy loaded coal train slips on wet snow covered rail as it climbs the final of three stiff grades over the New River Subdivision from Gauley to Pr... (more)

A former Seaboard caboose (complete with horn) creeps over the Route 2 crossing enroute to the chemical plant just out of the frame while a security guard from the plant gets out of his suburban t... (more)

a CSX SD50 cab sits on display in the Collis P. Huntington Railroad Museum. A spotlight was used to light up the cab interior.

On a damp and dreary December night in downtown Cumberland, Western Maryland Scenic, 2-8-0 No. 734 boards passengers for the nighttime Polar Express trip to Frostburg. Each year, the Western Maryl... (more)

With low fog and a full moon silhouetting the Norfolk & Western coaling tower at Farm, an eastbound grain train waits to pull east with a leased Progress Rail ex-Burlington Northern EMD SD70MAC in... (more)

How times have changed on the C&O... Distributed power is now a common practice on mainline manifests, as freshly rebuilt GE AC44CM No. 7003 is positioned mid-consist for Rocky Mount, NC to... (more)

The Western Maryland of Webster Springs... When one envisions the mainline and branch lines of the Western Maryland, the community of Webster Spring doesn't immediately stand out as a geographical... (more)

The 2015 New River Train spans the New River bridge at Hawks Nest on its fourth and final eastbound run of the season. Amtrak's Phase I "bloody nose" heritage P42DC No. 156 has had the h... (more)

Illuminated entirely by star light and the passing of two separate trains, a star filled sky swirls above the New River Gorge at Sewell as an eastbound loaded coal train crosses the New River on m... (more)

A New York Central trestle located north (timetable west) of Quick has been transformed to a vehicle bridge enabling residents to access their homes across the Blue Creek. Upon reopening of the li... (more)

Northbound CSX loads bound for Rush Run in Thurmond parallel the Loup Creek in rural Appalachia.

Federal regulators and CSX crews positioned this fleet of damaged tank cars in an enclosed area near the railroad's former Handley yard after a 2015 crude oil derailment leveled a home and put the... (more)

After acquiring THIS former Milwaukee F7(A) in early 2011, Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad operated and C&O freight sch... (more)

An Altoona GG-1 sporting fresh, PRR paint sits on display as one of the main attractions at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

As the sun sets across the Ohio Valley, coal loads from southern West Virginia are led by a trio of Norfolk Southern motors as they cross over NS' Kenova Bridge at sunset. Photo taken with permiss... (more)