As the sun retreats into the Western horizon, eastbound Q216 approaches the popular over-under crossing of the former B&O and N&W at Shenandoah Junction.

Even with Norfolk Southern's own very successful heritage program, the presence of a UP heritage unit in the Mid-Atlantic leading an intermodal train still draws plenty of interest from the local ... (more)

Unveiled the day before, the Veterans Tribute Engine (aka "The Patriot") is seen here on its very first revenue run passing through Overall, Virginia about 10 miles South of Front Royal.

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NS 11R rockets by the old N&W station at Boyce, VA at an impressive speed of 55mph with the NS 1073 in tow, as well as a load of Hercules Tank Retrievers.

Late October, and it appears as t... (more)

NS 12R with a ratty looking C40-9 (aka "Tophat") leading a visiting IC SD70 by the old train station at Boyce, VA.

The waning gibbous moon is just starting to rise over the hillside casting an eerie glow on the fog rolling down into the Potomac River Valley.

An Eastbound intermodal train (probably... (more)

A photo I've been wanting to take for years, and it finally comes together. The old station in the background is formerly of New York Central heritage, and currently serves as an Italian Restaura... (more)

NS 1021 highballs past the still-standing N&W style Color Position Lights at Welch. These signals are definitely on borrowed time as NS continues (albeit slowly) a signal modernization effort acr... (more)

Engine #184, representing AMTRAK's Phase IV livery pulls past Lynchburg's Kemper Street Station after turning its train around on the Montview Wye to be ready to go back North in the morning to Wa... (more)

NS 9927 is in charge of manifest 186 as it passes by on the left-hand main towards Bluefield and points East.

The large brick building to the right is a former coal company office bu... (more)

An Eastbound coal train has just passed through Sweetwater Tunnel, and is on the way to meet Westbound empties at Range Siding. The dog in the foreground was from one of the nearby ranches, a... (more)

A set of Georges Creek engines is seen pausing in the Cumberland Narrows posing for a nighttime recreation of a classic Western Maryland photo location. These two locomotives probably passed t... (more)

St. Marys, West Virginia boasts one of the best, albeit short stretches of street running in the Eastern United States. LaGrange, Kentucky maybe the only place I've seen that's better. Speci... (more)

One of few "captive" railroad in the United States, featuring 18 route miles through gorgeous Pennsylvania countryside such as this. The Cumberland Mine Railroad runs about 6 to 8 round trips a d... (more)

In a scene harkening back to the days when the Western Maryland was in its prime, a set of lite engines heads East into Brush Tunnel on their way back to Ridgeley, WV.

These engines... (more)