Natural Freights: NS 1049 leads manifest train NS 14Z over the James River in Natural Bridge, Virginia, as it continues its journey north toward Shenandoah Yard along the NS Hagerstown District.

Adjacent to the Ohio River, a NS Operation Lifesaver GP59E pulls on a string of mixed cars on a nice sunny Spring afternoon.

On a cloudy spring afternoon, an EX-Santa Fe GP60 is seen moving cars from track to track in Centralia, Illinois.

The Silver Star passes the Page-Walker Hotel building with a pair of P42s for power.

A group of railfans photograph Amtrak 92 as they service the station in Cary while Piedmont train 75 works the other platform.

Loaded grainer NS 54W heads east through Pembroke,VA along the Whitethorne district.

Loaded grainer NS 54W heads east through Glen Lyn, VA.

A street fair is interrupted by a heavy manifest as it crosses the Cuivre River at Old Monroe, Missouri.

79 the Carolinian rushes to its station stop in Burlington. The railroad has been serving through Haw River since the late 1840s

CSX 4571 leads M316 across the Shortline Sub towards Cumberland Maryland

Met 1 heading back to Dallas yard.

Kind of a bummer that the T-birds had CN-AC motors on them last summer. The T-birds work between the mine at Largo and the United Taconite Plant at Fairlane. We were chasing a trio of C40s on a Mi... (more)

Empties at Two Harbors do not leave the way they came in. I believe that's due to the headroom issue at Two Harbors, loads are dumped and then shoved towards an outbound yard. Empties then depart ... (more)

CN ES44AC 3827 pulls Vancouver Thornton, BC to Brampton Intermodal, ON into Osawin

The Southwest Chief rolls along authorized for 90 mph across most of the Marceline Sub. The train will have to slow to 50 mph for the curves down into the Des Moines River Valley here in a few mil... (more)