Headed for the barn in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a short stay in Roanoke, Virginia, one half of the NS F-unit fleet takes the siding at Berryville, Virginia, to meet intermodal 228.
More motors then cars on this northbound work train holding the main for a meet with southbound 211.
A rare treat today was this SD70 leading 228 eastbound at Delaplane. It is not to common to find a spartan cab leading this particular train. SD70M's or Dash 9's are the norm.
A northbound ballast train takes the siding at Berryville to meet southbound Stack train 228.
After the continual bombardment of DASH 9's it was refreshing to catch this SD60 leading 11R southbound in the late evening sun.
112 passes one of the last grain facilities along the west Virginia section of the H-Line.
The only place I found some sweet fall color along the West Virginia section of the H-Line.
Sweet late evening sunlight on a southbound stack train.
After holding for a monumental amount of time at the Daniels signal, these babies got the green and opened up in the straight-a-way south of Shenandoah Junction.
Wow! This guy managed to sneak away from Amtrak's Washington Terminal. Guess it needed some R-N-R.
For my 500th photo on Railpics, we see low evening sun light shinning down the pike lighting up the nose of this NS former Conrail Dash 8.
While on the hunt for some fall color along the NS H-line, I stumbled upon a little patch here at Millwood, Virginia.
Conrail Blue on an October afternoon.
Passengers waiting for the westbound Capital Limited at Historic Harpers Ferry Station catch a nice cooling breeze from the passing of Auto Rack train Q261.
A very late Q216 shows up at Harpers Ferry to catch a pocket of sun light as the train crosses from West Virginia into Maryland.
