Covering nearly every inch of the rail but the rail head, grease has accumulated on about a 15 foot section of rail at the lubricator pumps. The grease is used to protect the wheel and rail from ... (more)

Tower Falls: CSXT 3236 leads loaded coal train C210 eastbound through Balcony Falls in Glasgow, Virginia, along the CSX James River Subdivision, as the train passes an old coaling tower.

Seaboard heritage visits Keyser

Crossing HWY 77, massive CSX train M515-29 speeds south with a manifest train composed of 163 cars, and 3 locomotives.

After meeting an empty coal train at Broughton, CSXT #916 leads a 115 car loaded coal train up the grade into Roanoke with no issues. Part of the credit for that goes to CSXT engine #982 pulling ... (more)

Back when CSX had traffic downtown they kept a switcher at Johnson City. This ex-B&O veteran is resting in the sunshine for the weekend. Well deserved, it appears. GWI's East Tennessee Railway ... (more)

Local Runs: CSXT 363 leads local train CSX L212 up the grade through Moss Run, Virginia, along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision.

Tuckahoe Treck: CSXT 212 leads local train CSX L212 westbound around the curve in Tuckahoe, Virginia, along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision.

River Bluffs: CSXT 3236 leads loaded coal train CSX C210 through Buttons Bluff, Virginia, along the CSX James River Subdivision.

Somewhere in the metro are a local switching job is making the rounds. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

Growing up in the Appalachians I thought you had to have hills to have coal mines. Southwest Indiana isn't like that. Mostly it's flat, much of it is wasteland, covered with half-grown timber, s... (more)

From the get go of the merger I wanted to find these for RF&P oddballs because I didn't expect they would last long. Big surprise. They were still around the last time I checked.

Originally L&N (in this scheme), then SBD and now CSX with an odd touchup. Want to weather this one?

A outbound freight is headed geographically east and will soon reach the longest (horizontally) straight section of railroad in America. Likely it will head to the former ACL at Pembroke.