A southbound rush hour NJT train arrives at the classic old New York & Long Branch station in Red Bank. I first watched passenger trains here in 1971, when they were operated by PC and CNJ. Today,... (more)

The operator/leverman in HO Tower at Hancock is silhouetted in the window as an eastbound freight approaches. Alas, the wonderful old B&O tower is now gone.

The classic Juniata Valley SW9 eases down the streets of Lewistown with some interchange for NS.

An eastbound stack train climbs upgrade between Rural Retreat and Crockett, VA in 1998. A siding was built at this location not long afterwards to help deal with the uptick on traffic on this rout... (more)

Four fairly new GE C40-8s in the very forgettable "stealth" paint scheme are westbound on NS trackage rights at Sunbright, VA in 1989.

A westbound CSX freight pops out of Carothers Tunnel on the Magnolia Cut-off--a major construction project of the B&O dating to the WWI era. The distinctive B&O CPL signals are probably gone by no... (more)

Northbound intermodal R142 diverges at the beginning of a short stretch of double track at Habersham, TN. A coal train is waiting behind the photographer to assault Duff Mountain on this busy form... (more)

A westbound empty train of solid bottom coal gons throttles up around the curve at BS Cabin, VA en route to Hinton over the mountain crest at Alleghany. A cut of non-coal traffic is stored on the ... (more)

New SD40-2 3585 wore the then-new Family Lines paint scheme as it rolled through Tacoma, Va in 1978 on the point of a Loyall, KY to St. Paul, VA coal train. The new power looked great, but it sign... (more)

Louisville & Nashville K2A Pacific number 152 roars "south" (railroad direction, that is--but east in actual direction) from Corbin to Loyall, KY with an excursion train. This was the second of fi... (more)

Famous 4-8-4 N&W 611 takes a momentary breather at Pulaski, VA with a Roanoke to Bristol ferry run. The 611 and her 13 sisters rolled through here regularly during the '50s (and earlier for some o... (more)

Amtrak was just over seven years old when two SDP40Fs running elephant style rolled into Alexandria off the RF&P with the Silver Star from Florida. Those early Amtrak years were not filled with op... (more)

N&W 611 coils through a reverse curve at the brick yard between Grossclose and Atkins, on the Pulaski District. This is a Roanoke to Bristol ferry run to position the train for a Bristol to Radfor... (more)

Her service following restoration in Southern's steam shop in Birmingham was brief indeed, but ex-C&O Kanawha was a heck of an engine for the time she ran. Here, the big 2-8-4 is slowly backing th... (more)

One of the best remembered of the early Southern Railway steam excursion engines was former Savannah & Atlanta Pacific number 750. This ex-FEC engine was a high drivered runner, but lacked the nec... (more)