An 81 minute exposure captures C208 winding through the James River basin under a sky on fire with the aurora.

A quartet of Norfolk & Western C30-7s diesels, with 8010 on the point, bring a Norfolk Southern coal train into Norfolk, Virginia, on a gloomy Valentine's Day 1983. The N&W was merged with the So... (more)

The crew of a YN2 led coal train give a few friendly taps of the horn as they pass Sandy Hook.

Two friends wave to 28R as they depart Lynchburg.

NS 275 heads through Delaplane with the "Reading" heritage unit leading the charge.

With the "Southern" heritage unit leading, 25A heads past the curve at "Happy Creek" just east of Front Royal.

Norfolk Franklin & Danville 2 is an ALCO RS-36 built in October 1949 for the Atlantic & Danville Railway (as AD 2).

The Atlantic and Danville Railway was incorporated in 1882 and opened... (more)

25A snakes through some beautiful Virginia countryside after an ice storm hit the highest elevations of the B-Line. The lower elevations were already starting to melt, creating some of the low cl... (more)

274 heads west on the B-Line after an ice storm hit Linden. The high elevation of Linden created a nice effect that really only affected this localized area.

M652 heads through the Bremo Bluff derailment site with the "Pan-Am" Heritage unit leading. This was one of the few times I ran into a heritage unit leader on a nice day leading by acci... (more)

My excavator-mounted shear cuts up railcars from a recent derailment as a coal train heads east on the Rivanna Sub. We have a field division that specializes in mobile scrap cleanup jobs such as ... (more)

Classic WW power works the HH Omps transload, a facility also shared with Valley Proteins (now Darling Ingredients). I-81 looms in the background. Note the extremely steep grade on the one track... (more)

The D&H sits tied down in Payne Yard beside of NS local V77 as the crew on 18W had lawed out because of another 18W that had stalled out several miles ahead of them between Fieldale and Martinsvil... (more)

The 1994 edition of the "Santa Train" was a rather small one and the train has made its scheduled stop at this little town where the CRR and the N&W paralleled, crossed and paralleled a ... (more)

The 1994 edition of the "Santa Train" was a rather small one and the train has made its scheduled stop at this little town where the CRR and the N&W paralleled, crossed and paralleled a ... (more)