They say that black smoke is a sign of waste for steam locomotives. While that may be true - from a railfan's perspective it is quite the look! The 475 is shown here, displaying massive plumes of ... (more)

CSXT 911, the First Responders unit is shoving hard on one of the few up-grade stretches of mainline east of Clifton Forge. The grade spans most of the famous trestle that covers the Richmond Sky-... (more)

The first snowfall of 2021 ravaged Virginia quite hard. Regardless of which (and the coming ice storms which completely shut down traffic), Amtrak along with the other railroads continued to opera... (more)

CSX F40PH #1 leads the CSX Office Car Special south through Richmond in the early morning hours of September 21, 2023. The train is deadheading back from a business meeting with various coal execu... (more)

The temporary release of the CSX Tribute Locomotives (and possible complete return to operation) has stirred the minds of railfans across the east coast on CSX. Railfans from states far from where... (more)

Black River & Western #60, after a year and a half long hiatus finally returned to steam this weekend after many countless hours by volunteers and workers to make sure the locomotive was in runnin... (more)

The bridge of which this particular shot was taken on hosted many prominent railroad photographers in the Seaboard Coast Line. Various films featured on productions like Green Frog Rail Videos fea... (more)

Norfolk Southern 1006 leads NS V24, the Richmond-West Point (and return) local into Richmond, Virginia in the mid-day hours of March 6th, 2022. The Richmond skyline can be seen in the background, ... (more)

The craze over the re-release of the CSXT Pride in Service units has died down as the locomotives are back in the regular service pool. However, when the locomotives were put back into service in ... (more)

Canadian National power leads a loaded Molten Sulfur train over the former Atlantic Coast Line bridge, which goes over the Roanoke River and the town of Weldon. It also traversed above the SAL rig... (more)

A CSX coal train races against the shadows of cloud cover down the Rivanna Subdivision on its way to east with a long load of coal. The power for this train is a duo of CSX's tested and proven AC4... (more)

N&W 611 is seen here making its return on the 2:00 train gliding into the yard at Strasburg. The fields shown here are representative of the Amish country seen around Lancaster, Pennsylvania - wit... (more)

An empty CSX grain train rolls past the estate known on the railroad as Frederick Hall, with a C40-8W upgraded to have newer electronic parts. It was surprising to see that Fall Foliage had lasted... (more)

On the 25th and 26th of May - massive storms ravaged Virginia and the Carolinas. Rivers across the states were completely flooded - and that's evident here. The river is higher than usual, as CSXT... (more)

Foreign power isn't very common in these parts of the South. However, some units might make it past the many "anti-foreign power" railyards of West Virginia and Kentucky. In this case, a... (more)