On an unusually humid night, CSX Q698 eases into the curve at WD Cabin, eastbound on CSX's Big Sandy Subdivision with a leased SD40-2 in the lead. The nocturnal run adjacent to the Big Sandy River... (more)

Humidity and instability in the atmosphere has resulted in the brewing of severe thunderstorms over the eastern panhandle of West Virginia near Harpers Ferry. Partly cloudy skies and a near full m... (more)

An Amtrak Acela Express transit heads for New York Penn Station from Washington Union Station as it spans the Susquehanna River at Perryville, Md., at sunset.

Putting what little bit of a winter behind us and looking ahead to Spring, we look back from the February of this month, during the one and only significant snowfall of the 2011-2012 Winter season... (more)

Is it 2011 or 1985? Throttling up after emerging from the St. Albans Tunnel, a former C&O SD40-2 leads a train of empty coal hoppers up the Coal River branch line, splitting the mast signals at CP... (more)

The former B&O Charleston to Gilmer line, which changed owners numerous times before eventually being owned by Conrail now sits abandoned in the woods of central West Virginia, slowly being reclai... (more)

Approaching the small transfer yard along the Kanawha River, a pair of GP38's lead a string of two dozen CSX coal loads along the former Winifrede Railroad in Chesapeake. The once bustling short l... (more)

Retired Amtrak conductor Dennis Gleason signs a fresh brown egg after the successful coupling of three Amtrak P42DCs into the west end of the 30-car New River Train. The egg tradition was started ... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief No. 4 catches this late summer sunset outside of La Junta, Colo., on its eastward journey across the original Santa Fe mainline toward Dodge City, Kan., a... (more)

Moonlit at Thurmond.. An abandoned coal town of Appalachia.

While 2014 may have been known for its wild lashups of different Class I railroad locomotives, 2015 is developing a reputation on the east coast for featuring unique lashups of rebuilt and recentl... (more)

As daytime fades to darkness, C&O 2-6-6-2 No. 1309, WMSR 2-8-0 No. 734, and Lehigh Valley Coal Co. 0-6-0 No. 126 are illuminated in a twilight scene outside of the railroad's Ridgeley, W.Va. shops... (more)

Norfolk Southern's specially painted GoRail SD60E No. 6963 eases into a snow covered downtown Altoona, Pennsylvania with NS 66Z in tow. The specially painted locomotive was painted by the railroad... (more)

NS 380 has just arrived in Nitro from the north, sporting EMDX 2012 on the point. The 2012 General Motors Locomotive Group (EMDX) SD70ACe is a demonstrator unit that Norfolk Southern tested in mid... (more)

Wild 'N Wonderful West Virginia... Heavy rains have just pushed to east, allowing an evening sunset and low level fog to greet Chicago-bound passengers on Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 as it ... (more)