Tired of SBD's offerings one could find this train off the Winston Salem Southbound featuring my candidate for the ungliest paint job ever intentionally applied to a locomotive. They could have p... (more)

Even though the railroad industry has moved on from steam power and coaling towers, the legendary locomotives still remain. In a modern era without steam centered infrastructure, new ways must be ... (more)

The Buckingham Branch Railroad's steam track at Victoria Station was once the home of a spur and large steel furnace. A narrow gauge railroad split off of the original C&O railway and was known as... (more)

Before there were heritage units, I had an idea: since there were several predecessor GP30's restored for the main component railroads of the modern-day Norfolk Southern, what if we gather three o... (more)

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)

Norfolk & Western 611 hustles through Bells Valley at Black Oak Lane on a foggy September morning.

Norfolk & Western 611 storms up the grade at Ferrol on a dreary September morning.

Norfolk & Western 611 rockets up the grade at Ferrol on a sunny September afternoon.

Norfolk & Western 611 leads its passenger train upgrade at Augusta Springs on a cloudy October day.

Norfolk & Western 611 leads its train upgrade at Snyder on a cloudy September day.

Norfolk & Western 611 works hard up the grade on a dreary October morning.

Norfolk & Western 611 leads its passenger train through fog as it races out of Goshen on a cold October morning.

Display track of the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum in Bellevue, Ohio. Unfortunately the museum was closed when I visited Kemper Rail Park.

N&W 611 leads NS 958 around the curve at Gretna

The 611 passes through Swoope Virginia.