Right Before Disaster: NS 13R led by NS 4181 heads south through Charlottesville around 3 PM on a warm afternoon. Little did the train know, it would only make 8 miles south over the course of th... (more)

The rare locotrol-equipped 4-axle unit leads light power. Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

Eastbound coal train preparing to depart.

Homeward Bound. On a day that began with the ground covered in a light snowfall, the SVRR local returns toward Staunton from Pleasant Valley on a bright, sunny afternoon.

Engineer Nick P. gives a friendly wave from an old school dash 9 as he passes the depot in The Plains, VA. A couple of hours earlier, it was pouring rain. Now it's bright sunshine! It seems like m... (more)

On this first of April, a pipe train runs through Broad Run, Virginia during the rains heading east on the NS B-Line. Mother nature is the one doing the fooling today. It started grey and dull a... (more)

Straight Stacks: NS 25A led by NS 4609 begins to pick up speed as the train leaves Charlottesville, as it starts on its flat run south through the Virginia countryside toward Lynchburg

Rounding Home: NS 13R led by NS 8143 rounds the curve through Charlottesville, VA as the train heads south through the amtrak station, as the train continues its journey toward Lynchburg.

Title: So young and so unloved. Photographed in the dead line, this one will probably never turn another revenue mile. These were always first to go into storage on a downturn, vilified as slow... (more)

EB coal approaching the passing siding. Of course you can rationalize if you will but this is late March forty two years ago. Notice the foliage. It's late March 2023. Leaves are out, trees ar... (more)

Looking a bit worse for wear but still elegant this special unit is leading an EB coal train on double track just east of the division point.

Heading west on the Blue Ridge District, a train of empty hoppers returns to the coal fields for a refill.

It's called Flattop because it's level here. Used as place to tack on helpers sometimes, crew changes, storage of cars to fill out trains. There must be a power imbalance today as a bunch of stu... (more)

Mixing Kumis: NS 118, a manifest from Bellevue, OH to Linwood, OH, heads east through Kumis, Virginia on old Virginian territory, as the train nears Roanoke, VA before continuing its journey for ... (more)

278 splits the signals at Burkeville on the approach to Crewe.