With the sun shining on a gorgeous spring afternoon, CSXT Q401-02 heads south out of Acca Yard past the old Atlantic Coast Line Signals with a duo of Canadian National EMD variants trailing.

Running Long Hood Forward, this work extra is seen heading north up the H-Line, where it will then turn East at Front Royal and continue to Manassas, Virginia where it will then get to work unload... (more)

Back when this unit was fresh off the Paint Floor, still dressed in Safety Train Attire, CSX's Newest spirit unit, the Spirit of West Springfield is seen coming back from a training session in Ric... (more)

Running with the usual duo of GP40's, the Fredericksburg to Richmond yard job is seen pulling out of Fredericksburg, running an unusually long train today of near 50 cars.

On a bitterly cold February afternoon, NS train 35Q is seen passing under an old warrior, a Southern Signal Bridge. These signals are becoming more and more scarce with the replacement 'vader' sty... (more)

With the sun shining on a gorgeous late winter afternoon, CSX loaded crude oil train K122 is seen dwarfed by the Richmond Skyline behind with a trio of BNSF locomotives, the leader being one of th... (more)

The sun has set on the first weekend of Spring, and Amtrak train P066 has fully stopped in the Fredericksburg Station as passengers shuffle around and head to the coach to load up for the trip nor... (more)

Originally built in 1961 for the Union Pacific Railroad, this car now runs thousands of miles with the Ringling Brothers Circus each year as a coach. The bearings on these cars were updated a numb... (more)

A rather unusual sight anymore, a pair of GP40-2's leading a CSX GE Evolution Series locomotive. Usually this is the other way around, but without a way to spin the power, they had to make do with... (more)

Amtrak's Auto Train is seen stretching through the Randolph Macon College Campus in Downtown Ashland, Virginia.

With the Ringling Brothers Circus train already 6 hours late, they figured they would bring the Elephants out for a stretch. This provided a rather unique opportunity for photos as this may be the... (more)

On a rather warm Friday the 13th morning, a CSX manifest train is seen sweeping the curve just north of the Woodbridge VRE station with an Ex. Conrail SD60I in the lead

The weather could not be better as the one weekend VRE Runs on Saturdays is here, and the first of many VRE Santa Trains is seen coming back south into the Fredericksburg Station. This train would... (more)

CSX train Q410 is seen knocking down the interlocking at Dahlgren Junction with an AC6000 leading a C40-8W and 99 cars in tow.

Amtrak has been sending this unit south of Washington quite often over the past few weeks, and this day was no exception. The morning's Norfolk Regional, P088 is seen with one of just a few of the... (more)