Back when ATSF was and was all blue and when we old farts think all was right with the world a freight is climbing the hill. Photo by Robert Robl.

Eastbound whisks by. I caught a westbound and never saw these again.

Westbound "Texas Eagle" looking good. Photo by Calvin Christman. From my collection.

Southbound "Palmetto". Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Westbound "Southwest Chief". Photo by Calvin Christman. From my collection.

Swoosh and it’s gone. Photo by Calvin Christman.

For my money the best combination of motive power and passenger cars that Amtrak ever managed to assemble. Photo by E Forest Hadley. From my collection.

In a very rare passenger move this southbound excursion is rounding a sharp curve of the former Clinchfield just north of St. Paul.

It's only April but it's a hot day and the humidity is rising as the daily train is doing some switching around the modern steel office building.

A shortline unit that wears the original scheme, was bought new by its owner and is still working after so many years is rare indeed. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Back in the spring of 1993 I had a wild hare to head out to some old haunts by myself and South Georgia was on my list (the state, not the island). Here one of the shortlines that was new to me i... (more)

Starting as one of L&N tiny fleet of the model, through SBD, then CSX this unit has wound up on a struggling shortline. It must have not lasted long as I never saw it again.

A Lexington Group EB excursion glides through this picturesque little riverside town headed for a turn at Asheville. Great chase all the way from Tennessee.

On a sunny almost-winter day, fresh from a meet with 12Z at Glade, this westbound merchandise train is racing through another small community like so many that lie along Virginia's artery connecti... (more)

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