Back when the old back track (nearest to camera) was in place the local is doing some switching as the crew decorates the front.

Racing toward a crew change in Bristol.

Maybe someday I'll get all nostalgic about these 4000s as I did with F units but for now I find this one interesting because it's escorting the westbound "Brick".

A work consist is shoving west to the point where they last dropped ties for the upcoming resurfacing of this NS line. The power car appears to be a modified GP38 of some sort the railroad seems ... (more)

In someone's backyard this EB intermodal is heeling into the superelevated curve at a high spot on this hill-and-dale line.

On a pleasant spring day this short intermodal, running westbound at this point, has gone in the hole for an eastbound coal train. I can imagine the one gentleman is explaining to the other that ... (more)

A westbound intermodal is at the location where trains often stop to wait to get into Bristol. Numbers change, but usually there is one train with domestic containers each way a day and one with ... (more)

Just as they have for decades another train passes Mr. Goodson's mailbox but today there is no garden between the road and the railroad indicating Mr. Goodson has gone. His unique old mailbox sti... (more)

In a rare move Bristol based local turn V19 has run east to deliver something somewhere in the morning. This must have been a hot load which couldn't wait for the V40s night run. Spring is burst... (more)

Heading a train that was abolished and replaced with 12T is a commemorative unit which has acquired "character", blemishes showing experience and longevity. What most of us getting old a... (more)

Short stuff. Awaiting an EB freight this tiny intermodal train can use our short passing siding, a relatively rare event. A good day for me.

This WB intermodal cruises past the approach signal for both CP Wyndale and CP Abingdon. The new 136# welded rail has been kicked out for installation later in the spring. Wyndale is a CP where ... (more)

A minor battle won, having topped the hump coming east out of Abingdon this mixed, semi local, that works the major yards, is beginning to get a little roll on as it progressed across the Old Domi... (more)

Rambling through on an eastbound excursion.

The leaves are leaving and the weakening sun flames on the horizon as the oddly numbered westbound freight tops another rise approaching the end of their crew day at Bristol.