The first day of the Trains Magazine photo charter nears it's end as #1309 charges through sunnyside on the last runby of day #1.

Greenville & Western's daily run to Pelzer has just departed the ethanol facility at Cheddar for the run north. Fellow RP contributors boohooblues and Ant Davis are onboard the northbound run on ... (more)

NERR #573 rests at the Sand Pit in Monterey, TN on this May afternoon. The power will wait here until the sand cars are loaded for the trip to Nashville, TN.

The Virginian comes home! After pushing 175 loaded coal cars to Oakvale, the Virginian heritage unit returns west towards Elmore and passes the beautifully restored Princeton, WVA station and cab... (more)

The sun has just risen over the cornfields of eastern North Carolina has CLNA train #120 arrives into Chocowinity and the NS interchange.

Four of Blue Ridge Southern's SD40-3s lead the Canton-Asheville turn across the scenic French Broad river as they approach Asheville.

GSMR's "Tuck Train" crosses the Tuckasegee river as it enters Dillsboro, NC on a gloomy Spring afternoon. The train sports the freshly painted #2467 making its first eastbound run since... (more)

For a brief moment I got a glimpse of what life used to be like in Old Fort when Southern Railway painted units passed the depot on every train. Just after midnight on 4-17-2016, a shot I'd h... (more)

GSMR's 2nd Polar Express run of the night departs the North Pole (Whitter, NC) for it's return run to Bryson City where it will load a third and final trip for the evening.

A crystal clear afternoon sees this eastbound train pass under the classic N&W coaling tower at Prichard, WV.

The sun sets on P44 in more ways than one. In just two weeks Norfolk Southern job P44 will no longer exist once WATCO's Blue Ridge Southern takes over operations of some of the branch lines aroun... (more)

Eastbound BRS train W44 slowly creeps its way down the W-Line as it crosses I-40 in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

N&W 611 reflects on itself on this beautiful day at Streamliners.

MRL's two "Freedom pullers" lead the eastbound ML at the top of Bozeman Pass on a beautiful late Winter morning.

The Nickel Plate Heritage unit leads eastbound coal loads for Duke Energy's Skyland powerplant south of Asheville, NC. Once the train arrives in Asheville a Blue Ridge Southern crew will jump on ... (more)