A loaded unit coal train from Loyall, KY to St. Paul, VA is running here on NS trackage rights (ex-N&W) at the old BoPar load out just outside Norton, VA near Ramsey. The three SD50s were standard... (more)

A lone helper is along for the ride into the sunset at Sand Patch

A very acceptable consist in the form of classis EMD standard cab units leads today’s Q210 empty auto-rack train out of Tucker and on towards Atlanta with a final destination of Louisville only ho... (more)

The signal at the left "dates" this shot to the earliest months of new CTC operation on the NS Appalachia District. This westbound Seaboard System empty unit train running on trackage rights is ab... (more)

SD40E's lead an inbound empty Herzog ballast train.

An eastbound CSX coal train cruises downgrade into Jasper, VA and is greeted by a clear signal at the west end of the signaled siding. The geographic feature behind the train is known as Cliff Mou... (more)

CNW 7006, 7019 curve off UP's east-west main onto the coal line at a junction that I vaguely remember as being called O'Fallons?

Me and my friend got a tip that NS 145 (Buffalo - Claycomo,MO) had just got done working Rockport Yard in Cleveland,OH and had a CRQ SD50 on the point, not sure as to believe it or not we decided ... (more)

In a view from the famous Bear Mountain Bridge, a southbound Conrail stack train crosses Popolopen Creek Bridge at Fort Montgomery, New York, on April 14, 1991. Two EMD SD50s, Nos. 6739 and 6831, ... (more)

At 47'7", Bee Rock Tunnel certainly ranked among the shortest railroad tunnels in the US. The old newspaper feature "Ripley's Believe It or Not" once featured Bee Rock as the "shortest railroad tu... (more)